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“ New Psychology Complete and /Aind The Builder 
“ New Psychology Handbook ” 

“ The New Psychology Pearls ” 

“ New Psychology Question Book ” 

“ Living The Life and The Valley of the Ideal ” 

“ Scientific Prayer—The Silence " 

“ The Wayside and The Goal ” 

“The Tyranny of Love ” 

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domestic Psjjdjologg 

HAT institution with all originating 
efficacy, that which in its psychology 
gives trend to the life of every in¬ 
dividual, that which constitutes first 
cause in human life, is the Home. 

The word, policy, is used relative to manner of 
conduct upon the part of a state, a nation a corpora¬ 
tion, a home or other institution and we will also 
include a political party. Policy does not mean the 
things done but the ideas determining what the acts 
shall be. This warrants us in supplying a better 
word than policy, the word, psychology. l 

Speaking most accurately there is the deter¬ 
mining power in the psychology of one institution 
that determines the effects, the results of all that 
takes place in response to a first cause. There 
may be provided subsequent causes from which 
effects will occur yet I would say that it is most 
probable that all seeming subsequent causes are 
related intimately to the first, so intimately that 
they are first cause modified. 

By far the greater part of each individual’s 
effort is directed toward destroying or modifying 
results; we mostly fight effects and after we have, 
seemingly, completely annihilated them we are sur¬ 
prised to find another crop of about the same kind 
in evidence later. Almost all remedy, so-called, 
has never dealt with cause but with effects and even 
now with the advancement of practical psychology 
it is somewhat difficult to convince the individual 
that he can, through the proper use of Thought 
Force produce action upon Cause when that re¬ 
sides in the psychology of the home in which he 
grew up. If one does not get action upon the 
psychological source to make corrections that are 
anchored in his psychology which is a creation of 











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his home psychology he will maintain his home 
upon a psychology that will bring his children into 
the relation to life that will render them the same 
results that he himself has experienced. 

The subject of most importance to the world at 
any time is the psychology of the home and an 
assurance that one may begin, at any time and 
place the home upon a scientific basis, irrespective 
of the wrong policy (psychology^ of the home in 
which he or she was reared is a most optimistic 
truth. If this were not possible I could only write 
in bitter disappointment. The situation really 
enables me to proclaim certain fundamental prin¬ 
ciples upon which the home may be built to suc¬ 
ceed; perhaps will show, incidentally, some funda¬ 
mental errors that have obtained in the average 
home. 

There is the keynote in all of our own psycho¬ 
logical instruction, the ultimate purpose of every 
sentence we write or speak, that thought which is 
well presented in the conception that our teaching 
is the “Gospel of Liberation.” 

The keynote: EVERYONE SHALL BECOME 
HIS FELLOW MAN’S INTERPRETER AND NO 
ONE ANOTHER’S RULER. 

This must become the motto or standard of the 
home, beginning with the husband and wife in their 
relationships to each other of every nature. If 
this teaching were comprehended and lived by 
human beings there would be no need of further 
teaching for it includes all. 

I will endeavor to define what it means to be¬ 
come an interpreter of another. Ordinarily, we 
take account of what one outwardly performs and 
then judge him—condemn him on his demeanor; 
the correct attitude is to acknowledge there is a 
greater Self within him and seek to get into rap¬ 
port with that phase of him, interpret his innate 


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possibility, the form of it, and then get in line to 
help him express that; a very different situation 
from that in which one formulates a conception of 
what he wants to compel another to do or to be. 
This innate Self is the ideal which should be estab¬ 
lished in the outer life, objectified by the individual 
and should not be reshaped by any other person 
and in no true relationship does one wish to change 
another’s innate model but to co-operate in every 
possible manner to help him build it into the outer 
life. This is a normal attitude between people 
whether they are husband and wife, relatives, 
friends or strangers. What could be more desirable 
than to read in each one, his possibilities and aid 
him to attain realization? One who conceives of 
this can easily cease all tyranny and bossism or 
any other form of force and become helpful to his 
utmost ability in leading others to their glorious 
expression. 

When each becomes the interpreter of the other 
the husband and wife possess a basis of an ideal 
home—that which so often is a situation of rivalry 
for rnlership becomes one of complement that pre¬ 
sages completeness. A child born of such parents 
will never have occasion to recall any violent treat¬ 
ment administered to him to force him to do any¬ 
thing; he will recall the principle and practice of 
leadership and guidance into his best expression, 

Marriage or pairing, the union of the masculine 
and feminine has the natural purpose of complete¬ 
ness in order to create; no high order of creation 
can result where there is variance instead of unity 
and there can be no unity where one rules another. 
Unity is the result of each integral member ex¬ 
pressing itself according to its nature—being itself. 
Each seeking to aid the other to self expression, 
each seeking to liberate the other supplies the basis 
of unity. The product of marriage cannot be of the 


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highest order where either masters the other. The 
product of marriage may be in the form of Ideas 
or physical offspring or both and either creation 
may be of the highest order when each lives the 
standard to aid the other in highest self-expression. 

* To be parents of Ideas may be the higher office 
in many instances and the husband and wife should 
be qualified and left at liberty to interpret them¬ 
selves upon the subject as to what kind of fruitage 
their union shall produce. To reproduce their kind 
may not be the highest office of man and woman 
but whatever they are to create the best will result 
from each aiding the other in unfoldment of the 
innate possibilities and an eternity of disaster will 
attend upon the domination of either by the other. 

Nature has paid such tribute to individuality, 
has taken such pains to exhibit individuality in all 
of her subjects that her example should have first 
place relative to the child or children. All effort 
should be made to cultivate its individuality, not 
to force it to become like any copy found in an idea 
outside but help it to fulfill perfectly its own ideal 
within. 

President Wilson has written a splendid thesis 
upon “When A Man Comes to Himself” in which 
he declares that coming through an infatuation, a 
hardship of any nature even a dissipation need not 
be regreted if the Self is found. I quite agree that 
if in the absence of any sorrow or experience one 
would fail of that disclosure that it is far better to 
have the experience. I cannot believe it is necessary 
for one to have a period of “sowing wild oats” and 
reap a diseased body, the instrument through which 
he must express the discovered Self. No such in¬ 
dividual will attain the full expression of that 
which would have been possible had he retained the 
instrument in the perfection of harmonies. 

The Self of which President Wilson speaks, is 


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precisely the same Self that I am asking that every 
parent shall become capable of disclosing and en¬ 
throning in the child; discover or interpret its spir¬ 
itual gift almost at its birth then use all of the 
wisdom that can be attained to follow the child in 
unfolding its art. 

Never was there one born who had not a greater 
possibility in one direction than in any other and 
anyone qualified to be a parent could perceive an 
objective evidence manifested before it is three or 
four years old indicating its gift and beyond all 
of this the parent should be in rapport with the 
soul of the child which would impress him with its 
innate trend. 

So many parents have decided before the child 
is born that if it is a girl they will make a musician 
of it, if a boy he shall be made to become a lawyer, a 
doctor or a minister. The arbitrary decision and 
course taken by parents with regard to the child 
has thrown the usual individual out into the world 
a misfit man or woman with the innate possibility 
a very dim vision. There come to all such persons 
moments when they realize that the preparation 
and effort have not been in the right direction and 
that they cannot produce a superior result because 
they cannot put their souls into their work. Such 
a one has yet to discover the Self to know for what 
he is best fitted by heritage. He may become assured 
upon this point but he usually decides it is too 
late; he only says “if I had my life to live over 
etc.” My lesson is not a wail—it is a reassurance 
that one can bring victory to his life even if he calls 
it the “eleventh hour”; nothing has been annihil¬ 
ated, however, much the best may have been re¬ 
pressed. Liberation is a welcome offer to the soul 
whenever the conscious department permits it. As¬ 
piration of the conscious will bring inspiration out 
of the depths and the superior knowledge will guide 


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and attainment be realized. With this attitude 
there is a wonderful asset in the past experience 
even if it were not in the direct line of one’s best 
adaptation. Time and experience are essential to 
growth in any instance, although one has begun 
working in accord with his individual trend. I 
stated in the beginning of this subject that one can 
introduce a corrective, constructive psychology at 
any stage and thereby create a new cause which 
would overcome the causes which had their source 
in the wrong psychology of the home and consistent 
with that idea I give the above. 

Love rules the domicile under the fundamental 
regulation “interpreter, not master,” therefore, the 
thousand things in a home that are not right be¬ 
come automatically corrected. To try to live with¬ 
out contentions in a home where one is master and 
the other enslaved is absolutely futile; the law of 
cause and effect cannot be defeated and those ele¬ 
ments will disappear together when each becomes a 
helper of the other from the standpoint of a lov¬ 
ing, sincere interpreter. When the home becomes 
organized upon constructive psychology instead of 
the destructive policy, all destructive or ways of in¬ 
harmony shall disappear; for this reason I will not 
give specific attention to the various discordant 
elements introduced into and existing in homes 
that have been running on the basis of tyranny. 

He who brings a wholesome influence upon the 
home life of human beings is their greatest bene¬ 
factor and not only to the immediate persons who 
receive the uplift but to all succeeding generations. 
I consider the good incomparable which Mr. Henry 
Ford is extending to the world through his present 
policy. I say, the world, because I mean that; re¬ 
gardless of nationality he is impressing the most 
practical good- upon the home life of the thousands 


DAILY LIFE PSYCHOLOGY 


11 


of families connected with his activities and di¬ 
rectly or indirectly affecting thousands not imme¬ 
diately connected with his institutions. No one 
would fail to see that the improvements all have 
their source in the improved psychology for the 
result of proper psychology is a better physical 
condition. 


justness 

HAVE been little disposed to treat 
practical psychology as it applies to 
the specialties for the reason that if 
one obtains a thorough knowledge of the 
basic principles and practical formulas of our pres¬ 
ent teachings he will be fully prepared to apply 
them to any subject. However, there are some sug¬ 
gestions that may be helpful to one whatever he 
may have as his daily program. 

I am sure one is mistaken when he thinks that 
his work is to be valued the most highly on account 
of it being his mode of obtaining the essential ma¬ 
terial features of a living. The first purpose of 
one’s engagements is that his work is his mode of 
self-expression; the second feature is, his occupa¬ 
tion is the occasion of his coming in contact with 
others so as to help them; this must become one’s 
attitude for his self-expression must be a service. 
In the true order of any individual’s life his finan¬ 
cial and other material results should be third in 
his consideration, a result of the first and second 
items. 

All service becomes a privilege when this is the 
interpretation because it supplies an opportunity 
to be in helpful relationship to one’s fellow man. 










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All labor can be ennobling and should be so 
considered by any man or woman; any individual 
who considers his or her work ignoble and drudg¬ 
ery, pronounces it “common labor” and himself 
“just a common laborer,” takes his own classifica¬ 
tion and should not be disgruntled when his fel¬ 
low man accepts him at his own estimate of him¬ 
self and treats him as he treats himself (and it is 
true, one is taken at his own self-estimate). 

There is seldom an instance where one begins 
with that which shall be his life work. The ulti¬ 
mate is usually an evolution even if one knew at 
the beginning of his activities what he wished to 
do as his central work. Progress, seeming to be 
nature’s requirement, should impress one to inces¬ 
sant aspiration and should keep him filled with a 
belief that as he becomes prepared for an advance 
step (a situation where he can have larger self- 
expression and be of larger service to humanity) 
the place will be ready also. Many an individual 
with poor psychology looks ahead wishing he had 
that for which he really is not ready and he be¬ 
comes discouraged, depressed and irritable with 
impatience and converts life into hardship and in 
his discontent renders poor service and delays 01* 
forever prevents the preparedness of man and 
place of the higher order. 

The very worst psychology in business is the 
mental state of disparagement, self-depreciation 
and depreciation of one’s work. Envy of others is 
not based upon their superiority but upon the ob¬ 
server’s erroneous attitude toward himself and his 
wail of unfairness is his annunciation of his own 
unfitness. Still, all wrong attitudes are from ignor¬ 
ance and our teachings would not be superior to 
other teachings if we resort to condemning the man 
for his error and fail to show him how he can cor- 


DAILY LIFE PSYCHOLOGY 


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rect his psychology and lead him to the construc¬ 
tive side. It has been sounded from the house tops 
‘‘you reap what you sow,” but generations of the 
declaration have not made the reaping different. 
I am sure this is because mankind is not conscious 
of sowing—of when, how nor what it sows. Few, 
if any, have realized in the past that the actual 
seed sown are images or pictures; therefore, if one 
receives a hint that he has sown the things he is 
reaping he declares he has not done the things al¬ 
leged to be reproductions. I agree with him that, 
usually, he has not done the things, he has not 
necessarily planted forms; this I will have to de¬ 
clare as a scientific fact, he has entertained the 
thoughts whose seeds have materialized the forms; 
one sows thoughts and reaps facts and forms and 
never is one sowing more veritable seed than when 
holding disgusted, discouraged and despising 
thoughts with regard to his work. 

One may have a period of this destructive 
thought; then comes the wave of better conditions 
and he forgets that he has had the depression; pres¬ 
ently the results of his destructive attitude show 
in physical form and then he declares that the dis¬ 
aster storm came right out of a clear sky—an oc¬ 
currence that no one could explain. “Daily Life 
Psychology” comes with an appeal for hearing up¬ 
on its scientific merits with its power for correc¬ 
tion for if one knows, that he really can maintain 
constructive thoughts and build the desirable with 
much less effort and depletion than is made in sup¬ 
plying the energy for a career predominating in 
destructive effects, I have a faith in his ultimate 
application of his knoweldge. 

Among my students two years ago was a young 
man who had accepted, under protest, in a spirit 
of acquiescence with misfortune, the only work at 


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which he could make a living, interior decoration. 
He, with his highly sensitive organization, had ar¬ 
tistic tastes and fondness for delicate refinement, 
considered it a groveling thing to go with a gang 
of men to put the finish on walls and ceilings of 
flats and tenements—he genuinely hated the work. 
His turning point came when he heard the writer 
give a lecture upon “Consecration of Self to the 
Work One Is Doing.” He had it disclosed to him 
that there could be no surer way to tie one’s self to 
a thing that to hate the thing; that there could 
occur no constructive result out of a destructive 
attitude. He determined to cease to be a time server 
and put himself into that which he found best for 
him to do at any time. 

Almost from his childhood he had longed to be 
an artist and since art had always been interpreted 
to him as picture making and he, never seeing a 
time when he could retire from productive labor, 
had soured upon life and his existence. He was 
impressed with the creative power of love and he 
soon discovered that he could put much love into 
the decorative work; next he discovered that orig¬ 
ination was impressing his consciousness and that 
his employer was disposed to welcome the inspira¬ 
tion. After a time he loved with greater intensity 
than he had hated; his physical harmonies were 
increasing, he was using the formulas of the 
Silence. 

In less than two years he was experiencing an 
outlet of expression for his art without changing 
the name of his “trade” and found himself engaged 
in designing and executing the decorative work of 
one of Pasadena’s elaborate mansions. A happier 
young man the writer scarcely ever knew and at a 
subsequent visit to Los Angeles he was among the 
first to call to tell of his reconstruction and to 


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assure that he was perfectly contented with his 
lines; he took a series of treatments for the purpose 
of stimulating his inspiration, liberating his dor¬ 
mant powers of designing. Never was there a 
work that had not something beautiful about it 
and just as hating makes apparent that which is 
hateful so seeking the beautiful exalts the lovable. 

Soul is the Deity in the individual’s life and 
the mental attitudes chosen or consented to by the 
will direct the Deity’s creations. 

Whatever one’s attitudes are toward himself or 
his business (by business I mean anything that is 
one’s work be it “labor,” trade, merchandising, 
“art” lines, agriculture or profession), he informs 
all the people what those mental attitudes are 
through his telepathic communication and they 
hold the same attitudes toward him and his busi¬ 
ness that he, himself, holds. Telepathy is the larg¬ 
est factor of one’s affairs of all things in his life 
that have their source outside of the individual and 
when one has set a whole community to thinking 
adversely upon a matter, that creative and holding 
power of thought will be sufficient to crush him or 
his work. Often when he would correct his atti¬ 
tudes this influence which he has set against him¬ 
self when he caused all of his friends to form un¬ 
favorable conclusions concerning him constitutes 
an obstacle he will hardly overcome unless he 
learns the psychological laws by which he can de¬ 
feat such an influence. 

When one is all enthusiasm over his work and 
in love with it he creates a current that will be 
equally forceful working in his behalf as is the 
current when set the opposite way, working against 
him. The result would seem to show that there is 
a law by which all things drive the man downward 
if he is going downward or upward if that is his 


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trend—the law that gives the strong more strength 
or to the one deficient in strength will take away the 
strength he has. It is better to know the law that 
does this rather than blame the Devil or God. 

One’s daily program should be a constructive 
one—he should be building all of the time; he 
should yield to no occasion of tearing down. A 
farmer had harvested a good crop and sold a por¬ 
tion, garnering the remainder. Going to town for 
the express purpose of selecting a new buggy, he 
called upon the hardware dealer who had vehicles 
for sale. Before he had opportunity to state his 
intentions, the merchant launched forth in voluble 
discourse upon bad conditions and worse times 
coming; the farmer became disheartened and made 
no mention of his former intention of buying the 
carriage. The destructive feature of his speech de¬ 
prived another of much happiness and the mer¬ 
chant of a sale. 

A lady desired to purchase an electric car. All 
the dealers in the city discovered the “prospect” 
and sent their salesmen; the purchaser, speaking 
of her experience, casually remarked there was one 
who came to see her who had nothing to say against 
other makes of cars but was all absorbed in show¬ 
ing the virtues of his own and for this reason she 
ordered his car. All business men, the same as 
other people, are using psychology but only those 
who use the constructive kind can succeed. 

The self mastery indicated by poise is a de¬ 
pendable basis for creating confidence in one’s self 
and in the business he conducts. 

.A desire to serve must take precedence over 
the desire to make a sale; an ability- to interpret 
the seeker’s need and then choose to supply him 
with that rather than unload something upon him 
that the seller might prefer to dispose of, are fea- 


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tures that cannot be set aside by him who would 
have permanence. 

To live up to the fundamentals stated in the 
opening of this subject will insure the real vic¬ 
tories. 


Rafting a Pbirnt 

HERE was a time when man had no 
clock and when a clock began to be 
known it was comparatively crude; it 
was also a luxury for the rich only could 
afford to own one. 

It is recorded that a man had become very old 
and all of his life he had made a one handed clock; 
he had continued loyal to the one pattern. He had 
an apprentice, a boy, who became restless in the 
monotony of the shop that had the routine that 
never varied; he determined that he must have 
more knowledge and that he would set out to learn 
the world. In his tramp he presently came to a 
monastery and as he looked at the buildings he 
was thinking: “Here is a place where one can 
learn; these men have nothing to do but study; they 
probably know everything.” He promptly decided 
to take up residence there for the sake of learning 
from the industrious students who had nothing to 
distract their minds from research. 

Anthony, the seeker after learning, soon showed 
them that he knew how to use tools and he was put 
to work to carve an inscription for the altar which 
would complete that feature and the inscription 
consisted in the words, “Having No Vision, My Peo¬ 
ple Perish.” Before Anthony had carved very long, 
shaping these words in the wood, he became deeply 
interested in the meaning of the declaration. He 











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could not understand nor interpret them so he 
sought out the learned man who gave him the or¬ 
der, to ask him the significance. The good man did 
not wish to be bothered and he did not like to try 
to think and he thought he would take the simplest 
way to get rid of the boy and told him the words 
had no particular meaning, that they were just the 
right length to fill the space and that it did not 
matter about what they meant anyway. 

Anthony was persistent and said they must 
mean something and that he would have no heart 
to work until he knew. The monk then told him 
he guessed “having a Vision” meant that a man 
was sometimes favored of God who gave him a new 
instruction or command or prophecy but that it 
was very seldom that one was on those favorable 
terms to obtain the word. 

The clockmaker apprentice was silenced but 
not satisfied because something inside of him would 
not consent to the definition but continued to im¬ 
press him that the truth was not in the monk’s an¬ 
swer. He completed his work and by that time be¬ 
came convinced that the institution was not de¬ 
voted to search after knowledge and that many of 
the inmates were sluggish, having no ambition in 
any direction. 

When the youth had started on his tramp he 
could think of no place to which he could go to 
find the meaning of the inscription he had carved. 
Before that he had felt only a want for knowledge 
but now he was overwhelmed with desire for a 
certain information; he knew what he wished to 
know about. The result of his silence was a strong 
impulse to return to the old clockmaker, saying to 
himself: “I never could think of a question to ask 
him which he did not answer for me so I could un¬ 
derstand it, and now that I know of something to 


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ask him he can tell me; I will go back to him now.” 

“I have come to ask yon what mean these words, 
‘Having a Vision’?” “Why, that means something 
inside of you telling you what you can do, what you 
can become—a picture of that which you can do,” 
was the old man’s reply. 

“Please tell me where I can go to get that pic¬ 
ture,” was Anthony’s request after meditation upon 
the reply that he knew, in some way, was true. 

“You get that right at your own work-bench, my 
son.” The standard of few words characterized 
both of them and the boy of serious thought felt 
that he ought to work out the rest for himself so 
looked about to see what he would do next. In his 
absence his work had been neglected and the first 
thing to be done was to clean up and rearrange the 
shop and while he was doing this, which he could 
do automatically and in a state of abstraction, he 
was reaching under his work-bench drawing out 
debris and scraps of lumber when he saw, as if 
suspended in space, a two-handed clock. In the 
same flash of time he also felt that he was to make 
a clock* like that and place it in the tower of the 
public market building where everyone could have 
the privilege of a timepiece. 

Anthony’s next thought was: “How can I make 
the clock, where can I obtain the materials? I 
have not anything out of which to make the parts.” 
That very moment he held in his hands a s£rap of 
wood and looking it over, realized at once that it 
would make one portion, an item that must enter 
into the clock. It mattered not to Anthony that 
the part was rather insignificant compared with all 
that would be needed; he was happy because he was 
taking one step toward that result, a step that 
would be essential. 

When this part was completed he found some- 


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thing to work into form for another part and thus 
it continued until he had a working clock with two 
hands and he arranged with the commissioners to 
place it in the tower. At certain seasons of the 
year the roads were impassible and improvement 
was made so that people could come from the 
country at all seasons to see and have the privi¬ 
leges of the free timepiece, the fulfillment of An¬ 
thony’s vision. 

Having a vision, a human being lives, as truly 
as, having no vision, one perishes; there is life in 
the Vision for out of the Source of Life flows this 
stream. It is not nearly so marvelous that one 
should receive a Vision as it is that it is so seldom 
that one’s consciousness is made impressible from 
the Within. I am sure the reason this comes so sel¬ 
dom is that man has fixed his standard at Vision 
from the outside and consequently has only lis¬ 
tened, indefinitely wishing he might obtain a word 
from that direction; and he even determines that 
he has not lived the life that would be rewarded by 
such a favor from the extraneous source, therefore, 
he does remain absent from all true guidance. 

The clockmaker caused Anthony to turn his 
mind with aspiration toward the Within and the 
youth in his simplicity was capable of surrendering 
in absolute trust (became as a little child), and 
there was that within him that needed no urging, 
it was under the impulse to give its ideals, its pic¬ 
tures to the consciousness of the boy for guidance 
and reassurance. The boy had a typical phychic pic¬ 
ture, just that which every properly equipped indi¬ 
vidual has and all could become possessed of for 
true inspiration. 

All of my writings upon the Silence contain the 
instructions for proper aspiration and letting go 
to the innate Self in order to obtain the Vision. The 


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vision is there with its perfect picturing upon every 
subject that can pertain to one’s life but there are 
many points in Anthony’s situation that one needs 
to note and follow. 

The usual attitude of one is, “not here, not 
now,” but he has the standard that he is not in the 
present time and place situated to begin to carry 
into execution the best that is within him. One’s 
standard is to procrastinate, waitng for all the 
materials and all the people and all the money to 
be subject to command before one would begin. 
With this the standard the Source from which the 
Vision could come withholds the pattern. Anthony 
was willing to begin with a fragment and trust that 
in some way he would obtain the materials as he 
needed them. We all need the faith to begin with 
what we have, for if we wait until all elements that 
enter into a perfected thing are in stock, we will 
never begin on the great possibilities, not the great¬ 
est that we possess at least, for growth is nature’s 
standard and claims to have done sufficient when 
it has shown one a destination and supplied a place 
of beginning. That much is possessed by everyone 
and we need only a perception of what is at hand 
right where we are, to realize the point of begin¬ 
ning and when one consents that he is ready, his 
soul gives his consciousness the Vision and con¬ 
structive life becomes an incessant unfoldment; 
his guiding star is never absent. 

In our ignorance of the psychic laws we have 
often rejected the Vision because it did not show 
us all the parts; we saw a thing in its completeness 
and we interpreted only confusion because we did 
not see each item entering into the result. The 
perfected result is a prophecy; it is a guarantee that 
we can start and that the way will open as we place 
each step back of us. This is a wise provision for 


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the conscious mind or outer phase of one can only 
deal with an item at a time. If Anthony had seen 
that mass of elements required in his clock he could 
not have understood them but he could accept the 
picture of a result and that he had something out 
of which to make one part and when he had that, 
when the Innate Self gives the completed thing, it 
does not in the same moment picture the elements 
comprising the result but if the volition approves 
and chooses to begin and chooses to live in an atti¬ 
tude of trust, each selection, each movement or plan 
is inspired of the same source. Anthony was in¬ 
spired after he had a period of aspiration; one can 
aspire and trust but he must wait for the Self’s 
good time for the answer. One cannot dictate the 
moment when the Vision shall come—one may de¬ 
pend upon its coming if he complies with the terms. 

The Vision is not alone for the sculptor, painter, 
musician and inventor—it is for the writer, the 
farmer and everyone else and for all for every pur¬ 
pose. The soul inherently knows prophetically and 
the farmer may receive the Vision that would pic¬ 
ture for him what he should plant and this im¬ 
pression be given him with reference to the sea¬ 
sons of that year; the merchant may be guided in 
his advance orders dependably because the soul 
knows what the demands will be. The manufac¬ 
turer can have the Vision and all mankind can be¬ 
come adjusted to all things that will be because he 
can receive in his consciousness the Vision, sup¬ 
plied from the same source that inherently knows 
the future. 

All of my writings are faithful to the concep¬ 
tion that in every individual is a possibility of 
greatness and since the ideal or picture of that pos¬ 
sibility is always present even if repressed one may 
begin and build into the outer life the fulfillment 


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of the innate possibility. 

Apply the formulas of the Silence in seeking the 
Vision; take the Vision as the picture of the des¬ 
tination, have faith to do the slight thing that may 
be at hand and trust that you will be situated to> 
take each succeeding step to that end, a perfect 
result. 


Social 

O one lives to himself nor for himself; 
he is so created that he must be social— 
he must be a part of a company, an 
integral member in an assemblage, 
whose total of integral members shall constitute a 
unit. An individual and society typifies the uni¬ 
verse of worlds with each world in a vital relation¬ 
ship to the unit that the total constitutes. If a world 
should become out of harmony with the interests 
of the universe both the universe and the world 
must suffer from disorder; so it is with any human 
being for when he is out of accord with his fellow- 
man there cannot be a harmony of mankind and 
the individual, himself, must suffer the most. 

It is, perhaps, the most difficult lesson of life to 
learn one’s proper relationship to his kind and one 
unlawfully selfish never can learn the lesson, there¬ 
fore, he is constantly out of harmony with the rest 
of humanity, a situation wherein he can neither 
serve nor be served in any high degree. Each one 
has to adapt himself to the whole—he is not under 
the control of some supervening power that com¬ 
pels him into the normal relationships nor is there 
that force which would thrust him out of accord 
with his own; he must use his volitionary powers 
and place himself, but when he knows not a point 








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of view from which to examine his relationships 
correctly he is not adequately prepared to make the 
right choice. 

One’s personal gain in either the form of obtain- 
ment (things of a material kind added) or attain¬ 
ment (something as an unfoldment from within) 
must be spontaneous, must be an automatic result 
for no one with a consecration to self-gain, who, 
therefore, makes the intense effort with that selfish 
end the first consideration, obtains the real bless¬ 
ings that the social principle may afford. There 
is a requirement of self-forgetfulness, a self-uncon¬ 
sciousness, which grows out of a devotion to ser¬ 
vice to others or the whole, in order to obtain the 
gifts to which the unit has to bestow. There is a 
lawful selfishness, a selfishness that may appear to 
be the highest degree of that, bound up in this truth 
which is that one will obtain and attain the largest, 
the greatest and truest there is to be received if 
he chooses the fullest measure of service which is 
within his power to render to this social creation, 
humanity, this unit of which he is an integral mem¬ 
ber. He must grasp the idea also that to serve the 
unit means he must serve other individuals and 
co-operate with them in their service to the entirety 
—we reach the entirety by our service to individ¬ 
uals. For instance, to serve the nation one needs 
to serve individuals who are a part of the nation. 

There can be no law that is more dependable 
than that law which compels disappointment to 
come to any one who takes the attitude and under¬ 
takes the effort accordingly: That he shall get the 
most out of the people for himself and that he will 
give no more than he is forced to render. 

There is a law that is just as certain as the 
above, which is this—to him who fixes his standard 
that he will become the interpreter of the highest 


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25 


degree of everyone’s need and possibility and help 
everyone to his utmost ability, to obtain and attain 
the fulfillments that would supply his life with the 
most blessing, he, himself, will be the most enriched 
in all that is worthy; he even has a basis of con¬ 
tentment, the synonym for success. 

Th^re are two forms of illustrations that will 
help us to understand our normal social relation¬ 
ships. 

A hive of bees is a very high order of social unity 
and man could afford to take a lesson from its 
modes. The members here work together to create 
things—a home, a store-house and stores. There 
are many kinds of work to do and the builders best 
adapted to the different kinds take their places and 
uncomplainingly and enthusiastically execute in 
them. The queen bee is their interpreter and 
appoints each to its work for which it is qualified; 
there is a destination for which every one works 
but the end is for the benefit and enjoyment of the 
unit comprised by all the members of all the depart¬ 
ments. If any bee departed from the principle of 
working with regard to the interest of the com¬ 
munity it would soon be annihilated because its 
existence depends upon the integrity of the insti¬ 
tution in connection with which it is supposed to 
work. It would not be destroyed by other bees, it 
would perish through separation. No bee can ex¬ 
press itself working alone and for itself nor can it 
live if it undertakes to do so and upon this point 
man is subject to the same law that prevents the 
bee from coming up to the ideal of a bee. 

In the above the intelligent bees use their bodies 
with which to work to create something; they are to 
be contrasted with the coral animals or the sponge 
animals whose bodies comprise something of form, 
a form whose plan is carefully maintained by the 


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tiny animals moving among each other but always 
maintaining the situation to preserve that plan. 

These animals whose bodies constitute the 
sponge and those that constitute the coral supply 
us with the highest social ideal and I so much wish 
to cause every student of practical psychology to 
remember that the cells constitute the human body 
and move about and carry on their work always 
with reference to the preservation of the form or 
plan of the body which they comprise. 

In the household sponge we have the sponge 
animal bodies as they remain, or become from treat¬ 
ment, after the animal dies; in the jewel coral we 
have the bodies of the coral animal as they remain 
or become after the life has gone out and we can 
say this of great mountains of granite, all are monu¬ 
ments to an ideal social life of tiny individuals that 
lived their full expression. 

Each form of work in the life of the community 
of bees and of the sponge animals and coral animals 
and cell life in the human body is vital—there are 
no grades, one vital, more, another less, nor is there 
any sense in which the individuals producing one 
form of work are degraded and another because of 
their work exalted—each is vital to the whole, this 
signifies equality of importance, therefore an equal¬ 
ity of service. There is one point that is most 
evident in all of these subjects, it is that each one 
is doing the part for which it is adapted and so, 
finds complete expression in doing its part. 

In the human body the cell of nerve never tries 
to overthrow the muscle cell to take its work away 
from it; bone cell does not envy the brain cell 
because brain cell is the organ of mind nor become 
dissatisfied and demand that because it cannot be 
brain cell neither shall the brain cell be permitted 
to do its work. Mankind cannot find any example 


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in nature for its unnatural attitudes among its 
members. 

An ideal social result can only occur when 
individuals have different offices to fill and they fill 
those offices in the perfect way. All offices and 
all forms of work are vital in human affairs and 
the grading of things below and above when all are 
vital is only a form of speech; it is not a possible 
demonstration and when it has been attempted 
nature has always rebelled and ruin is the social 
result; disintegration of the unit occurred where 
integration would be possible if everyone regarded 
his work vital and the work of all others essential 
to the whole. If the office of each is essential then 
the individual filling the office is likewise and if 
each is filling that for which he is adapted he is 
finding self-expresson therein which places his pro¬ 
duct on a basis equally high with any other’s. All 
men are born equal; they would remain equal if 
they all took their places in departments of service 
permitting their self-expression; this is a fact 
regardless of what may be declared to the con¬ 
trary for one man’s result is of just as high class 
as another man’s if his innate self has found an 
outlet in his execution. 


<3l&eal ^xccrnomg 

ATURE indicates her disapproval of 
emptiness in a law that compels all 
space to be filled with ether preventing 
such a thing as a vacuum; she has an 
equal repugnance to stagnation for there is a law 
that compels incessant motion. If under any cir¬ 
cumstances, laws concur in storage or hoarding, it 












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is with a view to disbursement for expression is 
fundamental. 

Economy has become a thing despised because it 
was preached to us while we were quite young with 
an interpretation that one must save, he must 
accumulate and always hold to what he gets with 
all of his possible ability. The result of the methods 
of teaching many times in the past has been to 
drive one as far away from the subject as he pos¬ 
sibly can go when he has the opportunity to choose. 
There is the word, habit—we heard habits con¬ 
demned so much that it was difficult to learn that 
the best thing an individual could ever become 
would be through spontaneous expression of the 
right; we thought, as children, that there were only 
bad habits. 

We naturally thought that economy could mean 
nothing except saving—not expending. Now we 
come with our psychological analysis and disclose 
the fact that economy pertains to expenditure and 
not to hoarding; that one could hoard, build all 
possible walls about his savings to prevent their 
circulation and thereby manifest the opposite of 
economy. Ideal economy means the conservative, 
constructive and wise supervision of distribution. 
Power or any of its symbols responds to the law of 
which I am speaking and we may resort to the 
physical, mental or spiritual departments for our 
illustrations. Should one decide that he would 
conserve his muscular power in any set of muscles 
and interpret that economy of strength would con¬ 
sist in hoarding, therefore, he would, if it were the 
arm in which he wished to possess more lifting 
power, put it in a sling and should he decide he 
would store his power that way for a month then 
examine his accumulation he would find his stock 
bankrupt in power, that there remained nothing 


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with which to economize for economy pertains to 
the wise expenditure if it is ideal economy. It is 
evident to anyone that he can begin with a very 
small lifting power in the arm but expend (use) 
what he has, judiciously, and in a short time will 
have multiplied the amount he has to give out; he 
also must continue to use and in no sense hoard, to 
retain his standard and that he may be capable of 
bringing his muscular power in all of his body to a 
wonderful exhibit. It was said that a man deter¬ 
mined to lift his newly born calf in his arms each 
day and that he would continue to do so as the 
little animal developed—it is asserted that he did 
this each day until the creature reached a weight of 
900 pounds. I do not know that one can develop 
muscular power even through the intelligent expen¬ 
diture as rapidly as a calf may accumulate weight 
but the principle is true and explains the true 
economy which is not hoarding but spending. 

We have seen those who have treated the intel¬ 
lect upon the basis of hoarding knowledge; with 
any observation at all, one perceives that the only 
way to really possess knowledge is to use it and 
that the more one uses legitimately that which he 
has, the more he grows to control and increase in 
the thing possessed. Everything in human affairs 
is under this law; endeavor to hoard by with¬ 
drawing from circulation and lose all of the real 
blessing or virtue the thing has; wisely expend that 
which is under the control of the individual and it 
will multiply. He who uses the talents he has will 
multiply them many times over; he who saves the 
talents will lose the talents he has. Jesus presents 
this principle in his parable and it is now seen to be 
a word in behalf of ideal economy—the law of dis¬ 
bursement. 

In my “Wayside and the Goal” essay an allu- 


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sion is made to the disaster of taking so little out 
of life as one goes along for the hope of taking so 
much more at the goal. This is the same principle 
of the old way of keeping so as to have much by 
letting it pile up. Why cannot one see that the 
harvest comes from something planted; that penuri¬ 
ousness will raise more penuriousness; that scanty 
sowing must produce a short harvest. A bushel of 
grain planted in good soil is worth more than fifty 
held in the grainery—one is swelling and the other 
is shrinking. 

Just because that which is sown is so much more 
to be esteemed than that which is held does not 
warrant indiscriminate sowing. Ideal economy is 
frugal disbursement, not simply to get the thing out 
of one’s hands. There is one point in which one 
may be unwise and thereby increase disaster to a 
greater extent in that the more he disburses in the 
manner he distributes the greater the curse. There 
is an ideal economy in what one calls charity. To 
give to all who ask or to give to all who need may 
spread more evil than to keep in the bank or in the 
grainery. 

It is only a so-called charity to supply, as a gift, 
that which should be the fruits of ideal economy. 
The absolute poverty, in almost all instances, at 
least in America, is due to improvident expendi¬ 
ture—criminal waste upon the part of “charity 
subjectsone who gives outright money or sup¬ 
plies to such persons is going contrary to true 
economy and his injury is to himself and a greater 
one to the recipient. 

Ideal economy confirms this fact—one who uses 
the fruits of his own to take the place in another’s 
life of that which should be the result of that one’s 
endeavor contributes to that one’s delinquency, 
compels him to become a breaker of natural law. 


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He who supplies another with anything that aids 
him by making it more possible for him to sow and 
reap more abundantly is the true helper—genuinely 
expends for the largest benefit to all. To help one 
to help himself is ideal aid, but to give him the 
result for which he has made no expenditure para¬ 
lyzes him; makes him a dependent, robbing him of 
efficiency because growth comes under the law of 
ideal economy. 

If I put this forth as a teaching and it would 
not be capable of demonstration as a law of the 
cell life and structure as exhibited in the man, I 
would know it was not a true teaching. If ideal 
economy, the expenditure, not the hoarding of 
forces, were not the principle of the cells neither 
would it be correct as an interpretation of what an 
individuars life should be. 

Referring first to the subject above of so-called 
charity; we will not find the precedent anywhere 
in the body of cells substituting their bodies nor 
their work for the bodies or work or product of 
other cells. In the presence of health or disease we 
find cells complementing each other all the time— 
living faithful to the law of co-operation, but not 
supplanting. If a cell should become so defaulting 
that others must do its work that cell is sure to 
perish quickly. If co-operation and encouragement 
and in a measure adaptation to a situation upon 
the part of others makes it possible for the cell to 
do some creative work it may be restored to its full 
power and place, but if it must be shelved, as man 
often shelves his charity victims, the cell dies. 

We need to avoid swinging from one extreme 
to another. When we realize hoarding is not the 
way but expenditure is the law of growth or in¬ 
crease we might tend to take the view that we must 
let go of what we have—we must drop it some way. 


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That would be as unintelligent as for one to take 
the roof off of his grainary and let the snow and 
rain fall immediately upon the grain stored there. 
Sometimes one undergoes a change of attitudes 
where he has been a hoarder and wishes to become 
very charitable and throws his money broadcast. 
He would probably be the wisest expender of his 
possessions—he has some knowledge of principles 
involved in the matter of good coming from exer¬ 
cise whereas to distribute indiscriminately where 
people have done nothing for that which they receive 
quickly demonstrates that they know nothing about 
true economy and whatever is given to them is as 
quickly lost and they are bankrupt and made less 
efficient than before. I should say, let everyone 
who becomes acquainted with the true principles 
of economy proceed at once to help humanity to 
help itself. 

One may put wheels in motion to manufacture 
needed things and employ men—he helps them to 
help themselves and truly blesses them whereas to 
have given them cash from his bank would have 
destroyed them. Stimulating ideas, causing or 
enabling men to think of ways to advance their in¬ 
terests by advancing the interests of others is per¬ 
haps the highest form of aid to one’s own kind. 
Place an idea in one’s possession who can put the 
idea to work is a splendid aid and sometimes a 
word of confidence and encouragement is worth 
more than any material form of aid. It is seldom, 
if ever, best to give money outright to those who 
need. 

You will have perceived ere this that Ideal 
Economy is simply another name and application 
of the Gospel of Liberation—the teaching that 
solves every human problem. 


2®lagsii»e anb ttje dioal 

O you ever stop to think what you really 
read in the people that you see? What 
you can read in the countenance, in the 
walk, in the dress, in their eating, in 
their speech and their tones, in all of that which we 
call manner; have you seen and understood as per¬ 
fectly as you would the page of a book? 

We all see the same thing, but possibly have 
not thought what it is. 

We really see their Goal—the end they are 
working for. To this you reply, “I see on the aver¬ 
age man’s face some phase of disappointment—is 
disappointment the individual’s goal? No, but it 
is what he is to feel when he reaches his goal, and 
his countenance and his manner foretell his arrival 
at his goal, and what it shall mean to him. 

There is a law by which the body takes certain 
characteristics in its chemical states, its cell ar¬ 
rangement, its motions, its powers, its skill and its 
very appearance, after the especial predominating 
thought or prevailing emotions. 

I have to say that at present it is the Goal which 
tills almost every one’s mental world. His physical 
body and world of activity show the daily harvest 
from the prevailing thought and each thing gar¬ 
nered is carried in physical and spiritual form, and 
the more there is gathered of the kind that ripens 
from the seed of thought, word and action sown, the 
heavier the man’s life becomes. 

He is overburdened and he exhibits the sourness 
he feels. Yet, I declare to you, that it is his goal 
that fills his life—and I say this, while knowing aa 
well as you do, that every one has as an end that 
which he thinks will make him perfectly happy 
He feels so sure that he will be happy at the end, 







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that he has, now and then, a happy moment in am 
ticipation of that emancipation to come. 

That is the point of greatest error—all the hap¬ 
piness he has is in some way connected with the 
end—happiness, his best state, is always in the 
future; he sees nothing in today. My lesson is to 
show that any day of a man’s life is the index to 
what his actual will be when the thought life of 
that day is fulfilled. 

If this active life, which is as one day, holds 
not satisfying happiness, even content, those things 
cannot be had after that day is over. 

Happiness, success and content are not given 
as reward; they come like wheat, corn, apples and 
figs; like ragweeds, burrs, thistles, whitetop and 
dandelions. No one can live day by day in unhap¬ 
piness, pain, disappointment, disgust, hate, jeal¬ 
ousy, or fear; nor live in the future, sowing 
thoughts of the future, and yet see such seeds de¬ 
velop into the true, the good and the beautiful. 

Do not receive the impression from this that I 
believe that one never attains his goal—that one 
thing for which he hopes and for which he pays the 
price—the price of daily sacrifice to an ultimate 
purpose. 

Why, the average man does attain his goal, for 
which he has paid the price. What I do say is, 
that he who lives entirely for the goal finds in it no 
happiness when possessed. 

Is one to live a haphazard life with no central 
purpose; is that a correct inference from the psy¬ 
chological truths taught herein? Anything but 
that—a life without a central purpose is like a 
ship in mid-ocean without a rudder or a propeller. 
No one can guess upon what shore such a boat will 
be wrecked, but her destination never can be at¬ 
tained. 


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Psychology would urge the earliest choosing of 
a central purpose. A central purpose is as the 
necklace cord upon which the precious jewels are 
hung. 

Many lives are only working for the cord and 
entirely miss the jewels. It is the jewels that make 
the cord worth while. 

The jewels are the wayside—the daily oppor¬ 
tunities of which one avails himself. 

The correct way is to have a central purpose, 
for this determines the individual direction from 
which these opportunities are to come and the 
peculiar manner in which they are to be met. That 
all of this natural program of life leads to a climax 
is self-evident—as sure as effect follows cause. This 
culmination, this ultimate garner, is the goal which 
has scarcely been thought of and which has not 
been the conscious purpose. This is laying up 
treasures in heaven, and is the natural result of 
daily fulfillment and daily attention to the privi¬ 
leges of service. 

Heaven is neither a reward nor an end; it is 
incidental to a noble course of action. The Goal of 
the psychologically informed individual is as 
heaven, the highest state, purely incidental to a 
daily life. 

You wish to be happy tomorrow—be useful to¬ 
day. You wish ultimate success, avail yourself of 
day by day privileges. You want a final crown of 
glory, significant of power, conquest and royalty; 
they are fruits, not rewards. They grow from daily 
exercise of attributes of power in service and har¬ 
monies in all expressions. Over all of your indi¬ 
vidual world you must have the regal enthronement 
of your soul. 

This appointment which one makes with his 
mind and will is what is meant by “finding the 


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kingdom of heaven, which is within you,” and mak¬ 
ing the principle of that kingdom prevail in the 
physical and mental life. 

It is becoming quite apparent that the goal is 
but the merging of the beginning, continuation and 
ending, and that the goal cannot be possessed of 
elements not found in previous periods of life. 

I am determined to obtain plain every-day les¬ 
sons from the sublime truths that I have fearlessly 
looked upon under the title “The Wayside and The 
Goal.” 

The whole mistake has been our neglect of the 
wayside. We put off our happiness until the to¬ 
morrow of our lives, and that never coming, we 
name happiness “that elusive thing.” I scarcely 
know any one who is taking the happiness out of 
life that he should. 

I have known parents to hold over their child 
the idea of happiness as his goal by constantly tell¬ 
ing him what he can do and enjoy when he has ob¬ 
tained his education. Holding up this prospect is 
altogether right, but along with this prospect there 
is also an impression constantly put over the child 
of a lack of efficiency; this is wrong. “Wait until 
you are a man, then you may begin.” It is the 
same regarding the child’s pleasures—he is made 
to think that when he goes to town, or goes on a 
visit to an uncle, he may then have a good time. It 
is right to look ahead, but not at the expense of the 
home happiness, which is the main wayside, and 
visiting is only incidental. 

Some homes are on a most unfortunate basis, 
for in them I often see the mother a perfect slave 
and a living sacrifice, looking to her goal when the 
children are reared and can go out into the world. 
She can then renew her reading, her art and her 
contact with others. All of these are false hopes, 


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which destroy the wayside, as you will see, as this 
practical side of the subject unfolds. 

Another illustration is of a bright young woman 
who marries; her tastes require her to be in the 
midst of nice things. Harmonies only can satisfy 
her; her whole nature is artistic, but as they must 
begin life plainly, she feels that to make it tem¬ 
porarily comomnplace would be proper economy. 
She does not dare to buy that which would please 
her—even at slight cost. A morbid spirit of sacri¬ 
fice is working as she starts out faithful to a goal— 
when they have abundance, resulting from strin¬ 
gent saving, she will have everything at once, nice 
clothes, elegant furniture and fine pictures; she 
will then encourage acquaintances; will take trips 
to places of interest, and not having to work hard 
any more, she will study painting and music. 

My reader, you are saying, “yes, this self-decep¬ 
tion is so complete that it is a warranted truth that 
the human heart is the most deceitful thing there 
is.” You and I know that she cannot live ten or 
fifteen years repressing all that is in her true nature 
and then take up life where she left off. The fif¬ 
teen years is a creative period which fixes standards 
that are ineradicable; yes, but saving money, the 
goal, is attained. 

While attaining the goal, the wayside deter¬ 
mined what was to be the standards at the goal. 

But suppose she makes an effort to paint; she 
discloses that her hands do not obey her image. She 
doubts the correctness of her concepts. She decides 
she must give up that art. 

She, then, undertakes her music. She recalls 
that fifteen years before, she lived day by day think¬ 
ing, “after we have our money, I will satisfy my 
soul with music.” Now she turns away in absolute 
disgust, saying she is no longer musical. 


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She purchases the wardrobe she has denied her¬ 
self for so long; but, alas! all symmetry and come¬ 
liness have left her body. She studies social forms 
and tries to make herself natural in her manners. 
It is all a failure—her wayside was her character 
builder (building according to an idea to give up 
the desirable and beautiful) ; and it was forming 
her body with regard to rough ruggedness rather 
than to fineness. People see in her, one who is 
overdressed and unnatural, and she is made an ob¬ 
ject of ridicule. 

This is the law that, as the wayside is, so will 
the end be—one cannot change the standards sud¬ 
denly, they have to be developed. 

I do not suppose that any of these things that 
I have enumerated are the worst that grow out of 
the principle of waiting until a certain possession 
is had, before we do the things we think we will 
want to do in the future. When we look ahead in 
an attitude of contemplation of what we will do, 
that is superb if it will express the best that is in 
us. We should proceed to do the utmost that we 
can right now in self-expression. 


|JnicrastmattmT 

HAVE known a son to live a life of 
regret, after it was too late to remedy 
things. He had thought how he would 
buy a beautiful plot of ground and build 
a house with every comfort; furnish it commodi- 
ously, supply household help in abundance, and 
place his aging mother in this place of ease—he 
would do this after he had made a great surplus. 












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The surplus was his goal—he gained it, but his 
mother had passed away. His regret was that he 
had not, as a wayside thought, taken her out of the 
discomforts and given her the comforts that he 
could, from day to day. 

Of course, human beings wish to do the monu¬ 
mental things, and they tend to neglect the little 
things that in the aggregate, constitute the monu¬ 
mental. 

Here is a truth borne out in every instance— 
where one lives for his goal, which he finally at¬ 
tains, the things he has neglected by the wayside 
and to which he intends giving attention at that 
future day, he finds, when that day arrives, that 
neither the disposition nor the ability to do these 
things longer exists. 

Fundamentally, it is impossible to do any day 
that which could have been done the day before, 
because every hour holds its own opportunities. 
This extends over all of life and every minute of it. 
An hour lost is just so much of opportunity that 
can never be recalled. What an age of lost oppor¬ 
tunities between founding and reaching the goal. 
Life would be too short after reaching the goal to 
go back over the road again and pick up the myriad 
blessings we cast ruthlessly aside, or did not see 
at the time. 

There are many sayings that seem to be uni¬ 
versal that have not been taught by one to another. 
One is this—“Had I my life to live over/’ then fol¬ 
lows a declaration of how many things he would 
do and how many things he would not do. In any 
instance, the course would be opposite to the one 
taken. 

The meaning of this is, that he regrets neglect¬ 
ing the wayside, not that he has lost his goal. Some¬ 
times in the ways of a kind providence we are de- 


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layed in reaching our goal, and are made strong 
through this delay. 

The incident of the Holy Grail illustrates that 
we may so mistake our goal that we do not recog¬ 
nize it, when we attain an actual and worthy one. 

THE HOLY GRAIL. 

There was a mythical idea that the cup out of 
which Jesus drank at the Last Supper was carried 
to England by Joseph of Aramathea, where it re¬ 
mained in the keeping of his lineal descendants. 
This is said to have disappeared. It was the enter¬ 
prise of the Knights of Sir Arthur’s Court to go in 
search of it. Sir Launfel spends a long life in dis¬ 
tant climes searching for the cup. He returns at 
last a gray-haired old man. His charger, in gilded 
trappings with which he set out as a young man, 
has not been replaced. He returns afoot and is 
met by the same poor and needy leper whom he 
passed the morning on which he started out; the 
one in need who asked of him, and to whom he flung 
a coin in a scornful manner as he hurried away to 
the goal, the Master’s service. This time Sir Laun¬ 
fel feels the leper’s woes; in sympathy he responds: 
“When he girt his young life up in gilded mail 
And set forth in search of the Holy Grail, 

The heart within him was ashes and dust; 

Now, he parted in twain his single crust, 

He broke the ice on the streamlet’s brink 
And gave the leper to eat and drink, 

’Twas a mouldy crust of coarse brown bread, 

’Twas out of a wooden bowl— 

Yet with fine wheaten bread was the leper fed, 

And ’twas red wine he drank with his thirsty soul. 

The leper no longer crouched at his side, 


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But stood before him glorified. 

And the voice that calmer than silence said, 

Lo, it is I, be not afraid; 

In many climes without avail 

Thou hast spent thy life for the Holy Grail; 

Behold it is here, this cup which thou 
Didst fill at the streamlet but now; 

This crust is my body, broken for thee, 

This water, His blood that died on the tree; 

The Holy Supper is kept indeed, 

In whatso we share with another’s need.” 

Sir Launfel’s true goal, like ours, was always 
with him—we, like him, do not see that the true 
goal is in the daily need. We can far better afford 
to never picture that which is at the end, than to 
have such a concept that it dazzles our eyes and 
bedims our vision, so that we cannot see our true 
goal to be in giving and receiving happiness every 
moment today. 

The disposition to procrastination is an out¬ 
growth of our mistaken purpose in living with eyes 
only upon the goal. It becomes a controlling prin¬ 
ciple with one who looks to his goal and thinks 
what he will do then, to put off until some future 
time everything that comes in his path. 

There must be a source from which this disas¬ 
trous fact, of looking to the future at the expense 
of the present, has come, and we should look to 
this and see if that source is being perpetuated. If 
it is, its effects will surely be perpetuated. 

It is an outgrowth of the teaching upon the sub¬ 
ject of Heaven being the goal for which every man 
should aim. He has been taught, whenever he sees 
something which he would like very much, to deny 
himself of that so as to have the more of it in the 
next life. The principle of daily repression, that he 


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may have greater capacity in another life, has set 
the standards that now govern. 

No one can dispute that humanity has been 
taught that the more one suffers in this life, the 
greater will be his capacity to enjoy things in the 
life to come, providing he has heaven as his goal 
and is very miserable and humble in the present. 

The typical application is, to set our happiness 
for another day, another year, and another period; 
not to take happiness as we go along, but picture it 
as it will be, if we get into other circumstances. 

Then what shall be the scientific attitude toward 
the future? Simply this, that the present form of 
life, and all that is in it, merges into that future; 
that this life is fixing the standards for the next 
form, as perfectly as the earlier and middle life 
fixes our standards and forms for the latter. If 
we are placed in possession of our goal, then try to 
do things and be something to which we have not 
grown, our goal is a disappointment. 

Give a man a heaven to which he has not 
ascended by attention to the wayside, he will fall 
from it. He cannot play the part. Therefore the 
next life, just like the crowning glory of this life, 
is an effect after a cause; it is that to which one 
grows. 

“BE what thou seem’st! LIVE thy creed! 

Hold up to earth the torch divine; 

Be what thou prayest to be made. 

Fill up each hour with what will last; 

Buy up the moments as they go; 

The life above, when this is past, 

Is the ripe fruit of life alone.” 


<A 

BOVE all things obtain poise, the peace, 
the calm of a quiet mind. 

In these days of practical knowledge 
of psychology we no longer hold mysti¬ 
cal attitudes toward the sonl as if it were something 
which has no part in the present form of our exist¬ 
ence except as a thing to save for the post mortem 
state, when it will come into function to eternally 
suffer or to have everlasting bliss. Psychology, the 
science of soul, has become founded upon demon¬ 
stration as definite as the classifications in the 
material sciences, and we know that the soul of 
each individual has innate knowledge which is 
sufficient for all of one’s purposes; that there may 
toe a state of the outer mind which serves as a 
vehicle to bring the knowledge of the soul into the 
practical life or other states that preclude that 
possibility. 

Intuition that guides and inspiration which 
teaches may become accessible and dependable ways 
in which the soul exhibits its innate possessions, 
but a state of the outer mind, such as fear or 
anxiety, may suppress this perfect knowledge and 
cause the mistaken conclusion and action consistent 
with the choice. 

A quiet exterior is essential if one would gather 
from the soul its richest instruction, reassurance, 
prophecy and comfort. 

In a recent election the majority ruled of course; 
it was said that the result must be right, for more 
people wanted it that way and the people surely 
know. The fact is the people have the potency of 
perfect knowledge but may be in states of mind that 
preclude the application of that potency. Let us 
analyze the situation. Therq has been a state of 








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unrest, almost universal unrest for some time; its 
culmination is exhibited in the wars in Europe; 
America is manifesting the same principle in its 
strikes and manfold contentions such as conflicts 
between capital and labor. This general unrest 
certainly resolves itself to individual discontent; 
the methods of political campaigns tend to intensify 
dissatisfaction, for whatever exists there are those 
who declare it is wrong, and whatsoever one would 
proclaim as an ideal to be attained there are others 
to define it as a disaster. 

It is a psychological law that a mind in a state 
of inharmony cannot obtain true guidance from 
within, the only source from which dependable 
guidance can come for each one. Therefore, while 
the majority may rule, having the support of the 
numbers does not prove that a thing is right nor 
that it is the thing one, in his soul, really wants. 

There is that inherent desire and right of in¬ 
dividual self-expression which is above every other 
thing and it is this universal sense of being pre¬ 
vented or hindered in some manner in this self- 
expression that leads to this unrest of mind. The 
unrest is recognized and an outburst in all direc¬ 
tions is feared so the lawmakers resort to passing 
laws to compel the people to abstain from mani¬ 
festing this disquiet, but lawmaking and remedy¬ 
ing are very different things, for only that which 
educates to a change of standards produces a real 
change in the individual. 

With the proper conception of the above prin¬ 
ciples in which the general attitude of mind effects 
the result to the community, nation or world, we 
become prepared to apply the lesson in the personal 
life—all of my effort is in behalf of the individual, 
personal psychology. 

The soul is the building, the executive power in 


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the individual, a sub-conscious department of intel¬ 
ligence which is controllable by the imagery, the 
thoughts held in the outer, sometimes called objec¬ 
tive mind. The soul that builds works under the 
designs chosen or consented to by the objective 
department therefore desires and aspirations are 
effective in causing the soul to build the condition 
of body and to create the experiences of life in ful¬ 
fillment of the highest choice; but it is equally true 
that anxieties and fears supply the working plans 
with impulses as strong for building as do the 
opposites. A mind in quiet is filled with peaceful 
and constructive thoughts or images—a mind in 
anxiety, being fearful, predominates in destructive 
images whose fulfillments must be undesirable. 
Perhaps our reader will now look over his life and 
see whether in each day the constructive thought 
predominates or the destructive. The law of cause 
and effect is not more in evidence in any matter 
than in this; the life must be, in each item, an 
effect whose cause is an image which has been 
created or consented to by the will of the individual. 

All who would accomplish through violence of 
objective force are working on the side of destruc¬ 
tion; all who would reach their ends through the 
passive principle are using the constructive and the 
latter is building the desirable while the other is 
obtaining and attaining the undesirable. To hold 
an image, to describe in thought, or thought and 
word, that which one would not welcome as a bless¬ 
ing is to convert the creative power into building 
inharmonies. 

Almost everyone yields to the slightest provoca¬ 
tion to unrest of mind; the particular shade makes 
little difference, for if anger or jealousy is stimu¬ 
lated there is as much unrest in principle as if it 
were grief, worry, depression or intense fear. In 


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the presence of either attitude there is not peace 
and the imagery, the pictures in the mind make it 
impossible for the soul to prevail in happy uplift. 

Intuitively, mankind has recognized the value 
of peace and there is no human need that has been 
more extensively commercialized than his inherent 
longing for rest. Every effort has been made 
through forceful teaching that he cannot attain 
peace in his present life, therefore he is advised to 
fix all of his hopes in the life after death—he is 
taught that he should sell all of this life’s holdings 
for the promise of peace in the next life, for he is 
assured there are agents for the heavenly state, who 
for payment, may give one a title to everlasting 
ease. There is another teaching that one should 
patiently endure whatever comes in the present life, 
for it is his portion and if he tolerates it now, in 
his return life here he will have more peace. All 
of these false teachings have had a large acceptance 
because man innately craves rest and intuitively 
knows he should possess it. He has paid every 
price except one and has not found release from 
unrest of mind and of heart; that one price unpaid 
is the price of knowledge of that which is true. He 
has looked in every direction for knowledge and 
power except in the direction of his own soul. Any 
sort of a pretender who claims he has redemption 
and knowledge for others can enforce his advice; 
becomes a tyrant with many subjects who will work 
to place him in authority. The result has never 
been otherwise than disappointing because it is not 
according to the laws of a man’s being that he shall 
be dependent upon extraneous source for his per¬ 
sonal authority. 

Practical psychology comes with its liberation 
and teaches one to choose the thoughts which will, 
when impressed upon his soul, cause spontaneous 


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good cheer and hope, which in their reaction create 
an attitude of trust. When at peace one can hear 
the inner voice of guidance and instruction; the 
moment one becomes filled with worry or fear he is 
impressed to choose the erroneous course and will 
make unfortunate plans. One should never lay out 
his course of action nor come to decisions while less 
than peace and quiet rule the mind. 

I have given all of this detail to make my lesson 
plain that there is a science of the “Silence”; that 
there are forms which one can voluntarily practice 
which will result in obtaining the vision; that will 
produce healing if that is the needed blessing; that 
will afford inspiration in the line of the art which 
one would express. I would assure one there is a 
science of prayer which we call the “Silence.” Its 
description is of a process that is so simple that it 
is usually neglected; if it were almost impossible 
of fulfillment then there would be much faithful 
effort. The miracles of one’s life come through the 
simple methods and all that is natural is simple and 
a thing of universal need is always within the reach 
of each one; there are no attainable heights that 
are withheld from one who would follow faithfully 
a practical formula which I shall append. 

For any need, let it pertain to something desired 
of the body as health or skill, to the intellect in 
keenness of perception or scope, to the soul as any 
modification of habit or disposition, to the art as 
improvement in the expression in literature, music, 
painting, sculpture or any other self-expression, 
think over and even write out the definite thing you 
wish, read it aloud and thus definitely visualize the 
change you wish, then sit down to relax and let the 
mind drift passively while the aspirations that have 
been held in the mind shall fall into the sub-con¬ 
scious department or soul. Note particularly that 


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you should not continue to hold the picture of the 
change desired but should let the mind drift pas¬ 
sively, touching a multitude of thoughts not related 
to the things desired. The soul will make answer. 
One should continue this practice day by day and 
presently a quiet mind, the state of poise, an 
inspired life and the heavenly peace will become 
established. 


3Jogmtsttcss 


HERE are not words, no, nor imagina¬ 
tion that overestimates the value to any 
life the state of perpetual joyousness; 
if it were realized how essential it is 
to the human being (essential to growth, health 
and every other form of progress), that he be 
joyous better provision would be made for the 
child to come in contact with nothing else and 
developing youth and adult would become filled 
with that principle so completely that a dominating 
destructive principle would never find attachment. 

A visitor after an absence for two weeks said to 
her neighbor: “Isn’t it wonderful how fast those 
little puppies grow; that is, three of them must 
have doubled their size since I saw them last—what 
is the matter with the other one that it doesn’t keep 
up.” The questions accumulated for the neighbor 
endeavored to talk as rapidly as her observations 
developed. 

The reply according to the owner’s intuition 
was, “The three are simply bundles of joyousness; 
they never seem to know what it is to be tired, they 
are always ready to take a lively interest in and 
enjoy everything that comes along; the largest of 
the three is the leader in all the sports and when 










Prophecy 




Ideal Aotherhood Example of Poise 

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the others seem to become a little indifferent he will 
lie down and roll himself up like a football just to 
tempt them to pounce upon him, roll him, drag him, 
punch him and chew him. That other one was 
peevish and never seemed to enjoy anything that 
the others did; at first they included him in their 
play but he acted as if he had been slighted or 
mistreated and should have an apology from all of 
them for their lack of consideration of his feelings 
—he had a chip on his shoulder which each one and 
then the three, tried to take off; after this he would 
play in a half-hearted way for a little while but the 
trio seemed to realize that they had to coax him up 
all the time and that there was no permanent pleas* 
ure from their effort. They let him mope and he is 
becoming thin and, although he was as nice as any 
of them when he was born, we call him the runt 
now.” 

Prolonged absence of joyousness from any life, 
human, animal or vegetable will cause the individ¬ 
ual to become stunted, stultified—a runt. Forced 
hilarity or forced anything is not joyousness; jov- 
ousness is a spontaneous good feeling, a gladness of 
uplift and is always constructive; its absence testi¬ 
fies to misspent forces, misapplied good, the reverse 
of all naturalness. 

The cells of the human body (as is all cell life), 
are intelligent and therefore, with their minds, feel. 
There is no property of matter, as such, to feel and 
the cell bodies are of the common chemical sub¬ 
stance that may be found anywhere, so, when we 
say the cells are capable of feeling, we mean that 
with their minds they realize and in the same sense, 
the aggregate of the cells in their bodies which 
comprise the human body constitute a mass of 
chemical substance which has no power of itself to 
feel or constitute life; the mind present in that 


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mass can perceive and feel and is using the chemi¬ 
cal body as an instrument. Each cell is an entity, 
an intelligence with a body and is an integral part 
which serves the whole—each is a servant of all 
and the spirit in which they serve determines the 
degree of harmony or inharmony in the chemistry 
and function of the entire organization. Cells must 
serve joyously or the health of the body becomes 
impaired—they must enjoy their work, they must 
express themselves freely in their offices or there 
can be no joy—they cannot dominate nor be domi¬ 
nated and be joyous. 

Cells that deal with flavors find pleasure in the 
flavors of food and their joyous performance in 
selecting and tasting pleasant flavors imparts a 
delight to cells of glands in . which salivary cells 
multiply and all of this process is carried on joy¬ 
ously and the same spirit is imparted to the various 
kinds of cells in the stomach and all other organs 
that have a part in the,digestion and elimination 
and the blood making processes. All of the per¬ 
formances in the body should be with delight upon 
the part of the cells the same as that which is felt 
in those cells that taste and report to their nerve 
center which controls them and to which they con¬ 
vey a stimulation because they are joyous in their 
work. 

The man with a grouch carries an order to every 
cell of his body to hatefully and sluggishly go 
through with its work; one with gloom and depres¬ 
sion commands his cells to do less than they should 
do and feel that they are overburdened in doing 
even as much as they execute; one who hates, com¬ 
mands his cells to work together to create incom¬ 
patibles in his body-poisons, therefore, the individ¬ 
ual who is stingy stamps upon every cell of his body 
a false view of self-interest, that view that says “Do 


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51 


for yourself only,” which reverses all innate mag¬ 
nanimity and generosity without which man or cell 
must perish of all joyousness and joyousness is life. 

Hypocrisy has been the destroyer that is above 
all destroyers, perhaps; it is so deadly because it 
creates such confusion. It really makes no differ¬ 
ence which situation my reader understands me to 
be speaking of, confusion among one’s fellows or 
discomfiture among one’s cells; it applies to both 
for that acme of self-deception that exists when 
one parades falsely before others, destroys all pos¬ 
sible harmony in the elements of the body and all 
the elements of harmonious friendships or loves 
among mankind. For policy sake or from some 
other unwarrantable interpretation, many members 
of the human family decide that it is best to yield 
to that which seems to be compulsory hypocrisy, 
but nature never sees fit to suspend her laws; at 
present I am discussing the law of joyousness with¬ 
out whose existence in every cell and in every phase 
of the life there can be no permanence of health or 
growth; there can be no joyousness perpetuated in 
the presence of duplicity. One cannot buy off these 
laws with the wealth of bonds and lands nor can 
he or she attain exemption from this law; you must 
be joyous, spontaneously, through suggestions re¬ 
ceived in the passive state. This is another law, 
therefore, that cannot be defeated; live the truth 
to reap truth—no one can live an untruth and 
obtain the fruits of truth but one can cease to live 
an untruth and become true and reap that unlim¬ 
ited, frank joyousness of the happy little dog 
children. 

In the soul of each is a picture of the perfection 
of each thing that one should possess and attain; 
the office filled by Practical Psychology is in teach¬ 
ing one how to get in touch with this department, 


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tlie innate self, and I believe that every human 
being would prefer to get into harmony with the 
laws of his being rather than try to dominate those 
laws; I am convinced that one would prefer to take 
the course which would give him the real privi¬ 
leges and pleasures that belong to him rather than 
to try to obtain through force that which he falsely 
imagines would bring him satisfaction. It dawns 
upon one and finally becomes a positively proven 
conviction that he is his own maker, then he sets 
out to disclose the laws which have been operated 
by him which have created in him an unhappy 
result that he may direct the process through which 
his divine possibilities may be reclaimed. The dis¬ 
closure of these laws is Psychology, the Science of 
Soul. 


Effects 



HE disclosure of the fact that there is no 
healing efficacy in things as such but 
that all healing is due to a psychical 
power in the individual, has stimulated 
research for the purpose of discovering how much 
of the phenomena of life can be ascribed to the 
merit of things and how much to the interpretation 
of them. If results arise from an interpreted merit 
which the thing itself does not possess, that is a 
faith result whether it pertains to healing or some 
other phenomenon in human affairs. If one believes 
in a power which is capable, through its own mani¬ 
festation, of producing the result sought, that is 
not a faith cure or other faith result—there is no 
self-deception nor is it going to fail when again 
appealed to for similar purposes. In this latter 










Aodified by Human Thought 









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53 


instance the result would not occur without faith 
for faith would be the key to the result. 

A man who had tuberculosis of the lungs ex¬ 
hausted all of his funds in traveling from the East 
to the West; he hoped upon arrival to be received 
and cared for by an institution; in this he was dis¬ 
appointed, being refused on the grounds that his 
disease was so far advanced that it placed all other 
patients in jeopardy. 

Hopeless, impoverished and starving, he wan¬ 
dered to the suburbs of the city and dropped by the 
roadside where he was discovered by a man who 
was hauling supplies from the city to his lumber 
camp some distance up the Columbia river. Upon 
being informed as to the character of the man’s 
illness, he said to him: “I suppose you are trying 
to make your way to the healing spring up by our 
lumber camp.” The sick man replied that he had 
never heard of any spring that would heal one who 
had his disease. Then in vehement terms the lum¬ 
berman described the wonderful virtues of the 
water for that specific purpose and offered to place 
him in the farm wagon and take him to the waters 
if he thought he could endure the trip and on the 
condition that he would agree to faithfully drink 
at this spring. As they drove along, the benefactor 
continued his praise of the water and assured him 
that if he would only keep up until he could begin 
to drink it he would recover rapidly. They met 
others from the camp and everyone caught the 
spirit of the driver’s undertaking and all were pre¬ 
pared to guarantee the cure of the afflicted man. 
The thrill of eagerness and hope had gathered, or 
seemingly created new vitality as they drove on to 
the healing spring and by the time they arrived he 
had a splendid thirst which the companions assured 
him he must satisfy and then drink more; and as 


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often as he could find stomach capacity, to repeat 
and keep filled; that healing depended only upon 
his taking sufficient quantity. 

I need not tell you that he improved, gaining 
by great bounds—anyone would know that one pre¬ 
pared like that is not destined for disappointment; 
we all seem to know that disappointment is not a 
possible result with a cause like this. 

When this man was absent from their company 
they always knew where to find him. Every man 
in the community joined in to encourage him as to 
the results if he kept religiously at his drinking 
from this spring. When in a few days he had 
sufficient endurance, they gave him work that he 
could do, but he was under the instruction not to 
neglect being at the side of the spring whenever he 
could drink. The men soon realized that the man 
would get well and all began to suspect that truth¬ 
fully, though unintentionally, they had claimed 
virtues for the water which it actually possessed. 
Not until after the man had become healed and had 
left them did they obtain an analysis that exhibited 
only ordinary qualities in the water. They decided 
that they had been well justified in deceiving the 
man into his healing—thousands of physicians have 
upon the same principles decided that the end war¬ 
ranted the means for they, too, practice in the main, 
faith healing. 

My reader is asking if I could wish anything 
more, since the man was healed. Yes, as a prac¬ 
tical psychologist, knowing something better I 
could wish that all the world could possess itself 
of it. 

The fact is that if this man became ill with some 
other disorder or if the same one should recur he 
would in no probability be cured coincident with 
partaking generously of the same water even if it 


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were accessible; notwithstanding his failure to 
become well on succeeding occasions he could be 
restored in the presence of the same healing power 
that operated in the first instance. It is the prov¬ 
ince of practical psychology to teach the things 
that are known concerning the healing power that 
is within each individual so that one can have faith 
in the actual power, placing his faith direct and 
not working some subterfuge upon his soul to call 
forth its healing in the name of springs of water, 
bones of saints, charms, drugs, buckeye, rabbit’s 
foot, horse-chestnut, church or theology. 

There are multitudes of people who have learned 
the basic principles and practical formulas of psy¬ 
chology sufficiently well to become capable of be¬ 
lieving in their own soul as the healing power 
thereby bringing forth its expression when there is 
occasion and this does not wait upon the arrival of 
some certain physician nor the obtaining of some 
foreign thing that is reputed to be possessed of 
healing virtues; nor the hallucination that the body 
does not exist. Self suggestion and suggestion at 
the hands of another will cause a soul expectancy 
that will result in healing; there never was healing 
without soul expectancy and suggestion is the 
direct method of creating soul expectancy while 
other methods are indirect and uncertain, failing 
more frequently than succeeding, therefore unscien¬ 
tific. 

•poftrer of ^Emotions 

There are no depths of disease nor disaster to 
which emotions cannot carry one; especially if the 
emotion be that of worry, fear, anger, grief, jeal¬ 
ousy or hate; there are no heights attainable that 
may not be reached when the wholesome emotion 
of joyousness, generosity, sympathy, optimism, 


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hope, forgiveness or love, predominates. 

A brief period of daily life given to worry or any 
other of the destructive emotions mentioned will fix 
a trend and carry one far on the way to disease and 
a prolonged surrender or oft repeated yielding will 
produce established disease and shorten the life. 
From whatsoever cause disease may be present, con¬ 
structive emotions will turn the tide toward health; 
these statements are borne out whether any mode 
of treatment is used or not, and health may be 
produced when constructive emotions prevail even 
despite treatment. 

There are very few persons who can experience 
either one of the untoward emotions without feeling 
almost ill afterward and many are compelled to 
rest a period after such an attack. While all of these 
are observations so common that they hardly justify 
mentioning, seldom do those who have the care of 
the health of the community, therefore, of the 
individual, give warning and instruction upon this, 
the largest cause of any single cause that originates 
in the individual. It is the simplest thing in prac¬ 
tical psychology to explain why destructive emo¬ 
tions cause disease and constructive ones create the 
upward trend. The body is comprised of cells and 
every cell is an intelligence; the sum total of cells 
constitute an aggregate intelligence with certain 
cells appointed to direct the entire cell constitu¬ 
ency ; the cell body in each instance is comprised of 
chemical elements whose mixture is in perfect 
accord with the state of the mind of the cell; the 
soul is the seat of the emotions (an emotional state 
being intense activity in the soul) and the soul 
presides over the cells by creating the states of 
mind in the cells; therefore an untoward emotion 
reverses the chemistry of the bodies of the cells as 
compared with their state when in the calm of 


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health. To have an emotion of a joyous sort stimu¬ 
lates the cells to their highest state and function. 
These are not conjectures but the scientific results 
of chemical analysis made in each case. It is utterly 
impossible to experience mental depression with¬ 
out creating wrong chemical states in the body and, 
while nature is tolerant and attempts to readjust 
to the normal promptly, it may not succeed in fully 
establishing that high state until another wave of 
destructive emotion sweeps over the entire being, 
then another, until the whole body is in turbulence. 

After all, there is never an emotion that stirs the 
depths of the being without the consent of the will 
—there is always an opportunity for one to choose 
and decide whether or not he will permit the emo¬ 
tion to possess him or master it and if need be 
throttle it. This is particularly the office of one’s 
will, this sentinelship or censorship to determine 
what influence shall be permitted to excite the soul. 
No one is ever at a loss to know whether or not a 
matter is destructive or constructive in its tend¬ 
ency, for if an idea is not an image of a fact or form 
that he would welcome in his life it is destructive; 
if the opposite of this, then it is constructive and 
desirable; emotions are constituted of ideas or 
images. I know of no proofs that are more con¬ 
vincing that the mind in its sub-conscious form 
controls the body in its chemistry and all other 
states and functions than the fact that a paroxysm 
of emotion changes every atom of it with every 
emotional change. Every physician pays tribute to 
the destructive power of unhappy emotions, he 
often refuses to treat with his drugs while the 
emotions are recurring, saying: “I can do nothing 
for you unless you cease this worry, this grief, this 
jealousy,” or other destructive emotion. Practical 
psychology comes now to explain why ruin must 


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attend upon bad emotions but just as perfectly fills 
its office in scientific portrayal of the constructive 
power of the soul and its emotions; it teaches the 
formulas for scientifically using the soul powers 
for all attainments, and especially for the attain¬ 
ment of health. 

There are many phases of daily life psychology 
to be taught, but I know of none more important 
than those I have set forth herein. 

The physician who practices scientifically gives 
his patient suggestions, literally suggesting the dis¬ 
appearance of the undesirable conditions and the 
occurrence of desirable ones; making proper and 
broader application of the principles such a physi¬ 
cian practices, we have disclosed the fact that one 
is easily suggestible when approaching sleep; that 
a parent can telepathically convey a suggestion or 
audibly suggest to the child just before it goes to 
sleep and thereby improve the child in all of th£ 
directions of its needs and possibilities. 

Sucking the thumb, biting the nails, bad lan¬ 
guage and manners and all sorts of bad habits can 
be corrected as well as many deformities and dis¬ 
eases of the body be cured by the parent who will 
follow up nightly suggestions for a period of two 
to four weeks, suggesting to the child while it is 
approaching sleep and telepathically conveying the 
same suggestions after it is asleep. 

A mother informed me that her three-year-old 
girl cried violently every morning when her father 
started to his work and that the habit was becom¬ 
ing fixed, greatly to her distress. I advised her to 
suggest to it mentally after it was asleep for the 
night; she reported to me that after the third night 
of this attention the child was not known to cry 
at its father’s departure. 


.JHentorg 


A Safety Deposit 

MAN once selected, in a permanent insti¬ 
tution, a vault in which he proposed to 
place his valuables of all descriptions; 
to place them there for security, and yet 
to be accessible at all times, for he had the key to 
it. He misunderstood the situation slightly, for he 
supposed that if the key were lost there could be 
none other that would admit him into his compart¬ 
ment. He realized the great convenience of finding 
everything at hand whenever he wished to use any 
contents of his box, and the more he valued this 
utility the more he became afraid that he might 
lose the key ; his anxiety of mind caused him to 
endeavor to find a place of safety for his key, and 
finally he put it away “unconsciously” and could 
not recall where he had hidden it. His storehouse 
was intact, but for all practical purposes it was 
lost, so he declared that he had lost the contents, 
and grieved over his loss until he no longer thought 
of the key—he thought a key would no longer be 
of any importance to him. 

After many months, one day while in a half¬ 
waking state, he saw a vision of the place where he 
had concealed the key, and he also felt that upon 
returning to his deposit box and opening it he 
would find all that he had possessed awaiting him, 
and that he could take up each item and use it as 
before. 

A Tap on the Head 

A man about thirty-five years of age received a 
blow upon his head from which he became uncon¬ 
scious and apparently dead, but was restored to 
consciousness and activity. His physical recovery 



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was perfect, and his mental also, so far as any one 
could perceive; he was capable of all kinds of 
physical demonstration and could learn rapidly all 
the forms of instruction that were offered. It was 
said of him. “His memory is lost, since he can 
give no account of himself in a single item of his 
experience.” 

The surgeon decided that a slight pressure upon 
his brain might have remained from the injury, and 
if this were true and the skull lifted at the point, 
the man would again know all that he had ever 
experienced. The operation was performed and the 
man had all of his past life at hand. 

I would not write upon the subject if it had no 
application, except in instances where individuals 
have had head injuries. I presume such cases are 
usually treated by surgery. Such sources of what 
has been termed “lost memory” are rare indeed as 
compared with causes of which no account has been 
taken, and therefore no remedy hoped for. 

The fact is, there is no justification of the term 
“memory lost,” and its use has causd much disaster 
in the world. All that can occur in any instance, by 
any means, is the loss of touch with the storehouse 
of experiences. When the man received the tap on 
his head, the organ of that objective phase of his 
mind called recollection was so injured that the 
cells of that department ceased to function, and 
that being the faculty that reaches down into the 
department, memory, touch with the images in that 
subjective storehouse was completely cut off. It 
should be noted that anything which could close 
off the objective means of reaching into memory 
would produce the phenomenon, the loss of touch 
with the holdings in the sub-conscious department 
where memory is. 


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Auto-Suggestion and Memory 

Impaired manifestations may occur from physi¬ 
cal causes, but not with greater range nor intensity 
than those which may come from ideas alone. We 
have commenced to realize that suggestion is the 
law over everything in an individual; his standards 
may be chosen or consented to by his will, then his 
standards or principles (auto-suggestions) create 
him. When one changes his standards or conclu¬ 
sions he changes in all of his being. I wish here to 
change my reader’s standard, if he has believed that 
memory can be lost, to a conviction that only touch 
with the holdings of memory can be lost. The very 
self-conclusion will keep one’s memory in better 
service. 

How may one lose the function of memory while 
still possessing a sound brain organ? 

I have known scores of instances in which mem¬ 
ory was gradually cut off by the individuals; when 
they were making effort to recall something, they 
failed at the moment, and at once felt that “memory 
was failing,” and to add to the force of that fear by 
saying to others that same thing. 

Let us see if there is a proof at hand that an 
auto-suggestion or standard has such efficacy, and 
incidentally strengthen the conception that that 
which is within one is there forever, even if cut off 
from objective manifestation. 

Referring to the man who was injured; there 
was nothing in the surgical operation to give him 
his experiences over again which had made up his 
life, nor is it conceivable that a temporary store¬ 
house of those experiences had been occupied, out¬ 
side of him. 

There is a frequent situation arising in which 
one who has become advanced in years recalls most 
vividly the experiences of childhood and yopth, and 


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they often say that the things are exceedingly vivid 
to them. This is a standard we often find; when 
one becomes more elderly the things of early life 
are recalled distinctly, while the newer experiences 
are not so accessible. If memory could be lost, this 
could not occur, and as we learn practical psychol- 
ogy we live according to the laws of retention of 
contact with the subjective faculty of memory. An 
attitude to hold: “Since I know that memory can¬ 
not be lost, neither shall I lose touch with it; I shall 
keep my faculty of recollection active and perfect, 
because that is the organ with which I reach down 
into the department of memory.” 

I wish to impress the above upon one so that he 
would believe that by living that attitude he would 
cause his sub-conscious to spontaneously push up 
before the consciousness the thing that would serve 
out of memory. 

No one who has lost the service of his memory 
needs any emphasis upon the value of the contents 
of that deposit; perhaps it is difficult to properly 
appreciate anything one continuously possesses, 
but that which measures the value of any one in 
any direction is his experience. Experience is val¬ 
uable only to the extent it can serve the practical 
life, and one who is cut off from memory cannot 
serve out of his experience. That which consti¬ 
tutes the value in experience is that it is the source 
of wisdom; that which is most priceless in human 
life, therefore, depends upon the functioning of 
memory. 

Lest my teaching discourage the average indi- 
dividual (for almost every one has very limited 
recalling powers), I must remind him of the man 
who put all his valuables in the safety vault and 
then thought, because he had lost the key, he had 
lost the things themselves; that when he regained 


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the key he disclosed all of the items there waiting 
for him to apply, each thing in its office; “Practical 
Psychology” is not only the key to the subjective 
faculty of memory, but to all the sub-conscious 
powers, and they are myriad in form; none can be 
lost, but all, including telepathy, prophecy, inspira¬ 
tion, intuition, the soul’s art powers or the spiritual 
gift, may be so completely cut off from service to 
the daily, practical life as to render it as barren as 
if those supreme forms of knowledge and power 
were annihilated. They all come in to serve us when 
we believe in their presence and aspire to have their 
manifestations. To deny their presence does not 
annihilate them, but paralyzes the instrument 
through which they would perform—as to deny the 
existence of memory destroys the function of recol¬ 
lection. 

There is nothing in the universe as sensitive as 
mind, and yet we perform much as if we thought no 
inharmony or limitation could be created in it. All 
that we learn should remain subject to our use at 
any moment through the faculty, recollection ; but 
we read so many things and hear so many things 
that we know we will not care to ever think of again 
that we place over memory and recollection the 
command never to push those unimportant pictures 
into our consciousness again. We read to pass away 
the time, or we read ourselves to sleep—all of this 
is mind training of the ruinous sort, and will result 
in destroying its proper functioning. 

I once had a patient who had an overwhelming 
desire for knowledge, and he used the greatest 
industry in reading and study. During a period of 
a few years he read all the best literature. He 
reached a point where he could not recall a page 
he had read a moment after he had concluded it. 
He had taken in beyond assimilation and his mind 


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was literally clogged. The mind needs to be direct¬ 
ed with the best selection of the course made with 
regard to the principles of nutrition and elimina¬ 
tion. Usually we are taught that there is but one 
feature to mental culture, and that is to fill up the 
mind; the importance lies chiefly in how it is exer¬ 
cised; under what standards the impressions are 
carried to the sub-conscious; it is worse than a 
waste of time to give place to that which is not 
worthy of retention, for the principle involved in 
such an attitude becomes the precedent. 

There is a faithful record of every detail of 
every thing we experience, made upon the plastic 
self, and we carry this with us as a constant pres¬ 
ence, and it is possible to reclaim all of life from 
which we have separated our practical or objective 
self, but to do so means we must delve into ourself 
as the store house, and not into some extraneous 
self or thing. 

All that one is or may become at any time is for 
use here and now, for it is all a vital part relative 
to the highest attainment of the individual. 


Pfommt—Ji'mg ^Jour (3§fmt jSottg 



HANTICLER, with his kingly bearing 
and confident, noble and sincere mien, 
was supported by the thorough convic¬ 
tion of a mission, of vital purpose and 
his ability to fulfill these in the highest service. 

Since this beautiful and exalted distributor of 
blessing was sincere, and especially since he was 
true, he was modest. All reality, all merit is accom¬ 
panied by modesty. Our psychology study has con¬ 
firmed the law that true modesty, although it is the 
mildest, most benign expression, is the severest 




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rebuke to all pretense, and to all who would assume 
to possess a power and fulfill a magnanimous pur¬ 
pose, when in reality they are seeking self-exalta¬ 
tion. 

Chanticler in his beatification was, through the 
very nature of his graces, an enemy to the prevail¬ 
ing standards of those to whose door he brought 
every blessing; in their narrow and selfish vision 
they could not discern that it was his merit that 
irritated them, therefore, they sought to destroy 
him. They would annihilate his self-confidence, his 
self-esteem; and when broken in spirit, he would be 
brought down to their level. 

So it is recorded that there was a convention of 
fowls for the purpose of victimizing Chanticler. It 
was a motley mingling in which creatures usually 
at warfare with each other in violent competition 
for food, assembled under truce; for, there was one 
point of common agreement: Chanticler must be 
shorn of his beauty; he must not be permitted self- 
expression. 

The fowls, it is alleged, sent their committee to 
say to him: “Common bird, you conceited fool, we 
come to disillusion you; you have no beauty, our 
golden pheasant has all the beauty, behold her 
beautiful form and her beautiful markings by the 
side of your grotesque, towering coarseness and 
your repulsive colorings.” Then Chanticler replied: 
“Golden pheasant is the very embodiment of charm; 
full of delight and she is so graceful and I approve 
of all you say of our member, but my blessing is not 
in my bodily beauty, my blessing is in my service; 
I herald the day; it is my song that causes the sun 
to rise and without my song there would be no 
sunrise, no day, no light.” Now that they had suc¬ 
ceeded in causing him to commit himself, they were 


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sure they could make a direct attack that would 
vanquish him. 

They said: “He only needs to hear a real song 
to make him think he has no voice but makes crude 
noises; we will entice him into the woods to hear 
Nightingale, then he will lose all of his self confi¬ 
dence and cease his effort.” 

Their plot was consummated and Chanticler 
was fascinated by the sweet song of the Nightingale, 
and as he paid tribute of sweetest approval, the 
fowls became more enraged, for he said: “The 
sweetest song of the night comforts us through its 
beauty and my song complements it and is a proph¬ 
ecy of day which dispels night; it is not my voice 
but the service of my song, the song which is not 
sung by another, which constitutes my blessing.” 

When the antagonists realized their discom¬ 
fiture in all attempts to break his spirit by assault 
upon his ideal, they plotted in the heat of hate and 
said they would resort to a form of power through 
which they would overwhelm him; namely, their 
superior physical force; if they could not reach his 
spirit and suppress him, then they would crush him, 
cripple or kill him by the power of violence. And 
it is recorded that they provoked the physical con¬ 
flict in which he was overpowered because out¬ 
numbered. 

When his body was shorn of its beauty and lay 
mangled and dying the thought of Chanticler was 
not upon his own pain, mutilation nor humiliation; 
he looked upon his misguided antagonists and said: 
“Oh, you have destroyed my song, you have made 
night permanent when I could make for you such a 
glorious day; I could bring you the seasons with 
their warmth and their moisture and their rest; 
oh, if you would only understand and permit me 
to let my day dawn I would so enrich you ; by the 


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aid of my sunrise you can create a sunrise, cause a 
dawn and a day as glorious as life.” 

In Chanticler I can see woman: I came near 
saying, by Chanticler I mean woman; through 
Chanticler I will help woman; I will help her sing 
her song. The need upon the part of woman and 
the world is mutual, I may say equal; that the 
woman sing her song and that the world have her 
song. 

Her song has been denied her by all the methods 
of the kingdom of fowls. She has been robbed of 
her self-confidence, she was made self-conscious; her 
mentality was depreciated to make more of her 
body, that she might become more physical in feel¬ 
ings and manifestations; her delicacy and refine¬ 
ment were interpreted as weakness which would 
perpetuate her classification as a plaything for 
man, or his slave. If she should be acknowledged 
as an individual then she should be permitted to 
express an individuality, therefore, she has been 
considered simply a subject. 

To nothing else but a changed psychology is the 
credit due for her becoming classified by man and 
woman as an individual and through this modern 
psychology she has an outlook for individual libera¬ 
tion and through Chanticler psychology she is to 
be made to realize she has a song which she can 
sing, which is her individual song; that she is to 
be liberated for utmost self-expression which is to 
sing one’s song. 

Yes, Woman, you have a song, your own song 
(each individual an individual song) which you 
must sing. Your song heralds the dawn of day 
that dispels woman’s night and man’s as well. It 
is not a nursery song, it is not the song of the shirt; 
it is not the song of music’s domain nor of the 
brush nor pen; it is all of these and as many more 


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as there are individual women—a song for each, 
her very own—her ideal with complete outlet. 

Woman’s possibilities are becoming revealed to 
her and she welcomes them all as privilege, a 
constructive attitude that provides for creation, 
growth. Her innate modesty suggests the highest 
delicacy and refinement in organism and manner of 
expression; these, when their trend is observed, 
constitute the highest or heavenly state of sensitive¬ 
ness, a susceptibility to intuitive knowledge and 
inherent power whose significance is: Woman, if 
she is normal, expresses herself passively; expresses 
in the manner of Chanticler, under the passive laws 
of soul, not according to the principles of violent 
force like those of the assailants of Chanticler. 

Now that we know that each one has a song, 
which is her individual song, which she must sing 
or a sun will never rise, we must continue our psy¬ 
chology research and disclose the laws by which 
each one may find her song and we must exhibit 
the formulas for its expression—must show her 
how to set it to music. I shall therefore prepare a 
series of essays in the practical psychology of 
“Woman; Sing Your Own Song.” 

Woman; Heaven has no grander possibility, no 
higher privilege than is yours if you sing your own 
song; this is your ultimate liberaton and the strong¬ 
est power in the world today to aid in this achieve¬ 
ment is Everywoman. 


(Snitifriimalttg 



HE right to be an individual is the high¬ 
est right, the first right of a human 
being. All rights are divine, but this is 
the sum total of rights and is as much 
greater, compared with any other right, as is the 
universe greater than any one of its elements. Each 
item that pertains to the creature pays tribute to 
the creature, therefore at this time I am considering 
the chiefest thing in the world, mankind, and the 
chiefest in him. 

In discussing individuality I am compelled to 
consider that which one must demand for self from 
others and that which one must grant to others. 
The problem would be in fair way to solution if 
each allowed to another that which he himself 
would wish as his own; because one is so unjust in 
his allowances to others he becomes unfitted to 
choose for himself. 

In the instance of a daughter, when it is the law 
that a person shall be one; that all her greatness 
as she grows, shall constitute her effectually 
indivisible and yet every force that can approach 
her life reverses the normal attitudes and uses all 
its power to distort, divide and mix her; it is not 
surprising that she becomes a partial expression of 
many things that are opposites instead of a com¬ 
plete expression of herself. 

Nature is faithful to the law of individuality 
and provides for each subject to be itself all the 
way from the amoeba to man; man being a higher 
organization is possessed of will and volition—he 
chooses; every man may be true to individuality or 
he may follow the inclinations and drift into the 
shapes, gravitate to the manifestations that hap¬ 
hazard would produce; again, he may permit his 






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will to become so paralyzed that any passing voice 
may lead him to imitation. 

The mass of humanity is comprised of such 
results—we all find in ourselves evidence of our 
having been shaped at the hands of many creators, 
until each has become the expression of the inhar¬ 
monies of the multitude, instead of the peculiar 
indivisible self of consistencies and harmonies. 

Observers of many members of the human fam¬ 
ily declare that multiple personalities control every 
life; this is not true, but our opposites have their 
source in the destruction of our individuality and 
the enforcement of false and foreign copies. 

Under normal conditions, to be one’s self would 
be the easiest, for it would be the most natural thing 
to be, but to prove whether or not one is normal in 
his conditions, let him undertake to be himself upon 
any point; he will quickly disclose the tyranny of 
which he has become the victim. 

However, I trust I have demonstrated that it is 
a law of our being; each to be an individual and 
that no other law is more transgressed nor with so 
much ruin; let us turn to history, analysis and 
remedy. This is surely a question of psychology; 
certainly it is not one of theology, at least not in 
the remedy. The standards that have robbed each 
one of his highest rights will not be championed as 
remedy for their own effects. Because a true psy¬ 
chology holds the possibility of the corrections of 
all the disasters brought to man by tyranny of false 
theologies, psychology, its laws and formulas are 
sometimes opposed. Practical psychology is a 
liberating gospel, the opposite of all so-called 
gospels. 

To create, liberate and enthrone individuality, 
is the purpose, the heaven of practical psychology. 
To attain that, in any instance, the ideal would 


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require us to go back to ancestry and correct its 
thought life, but we will be practical and define 
home, school, society, business and perhaps econo¬ 
mics, in their psychological possibilities relative to 
individuality. 

Individuality and every element of the individ¬ 
ual, his tastes, principles, probable expressions and 
repressions are so much effected by the psychology 
of the home that it becomes of first importance that 
his psychology shall be the right kind. 

So much attention has been given to obedience 
that control through violent force of tyranny has 
become the rule. The violence of speech is just as 
much an enforcement of destructive tyranny as is 
the use of the club or switch; the child yields to 
superior force that compels him into a mold which 
he does not fit. It may be right for all the children 
of a family to come up to the harmony, but not by 
being just alike—we can say the same of the chil¬ 
dren of the community of families. One child 
might, if its innate disposition were interpreted, be 
vivacious in all of its manifestations; another might 
be slow and serious, yet both fulfill perfect har¬ 
monies. It would not be the bending of dignity if 
the parent allowed the activity, levity and seeming 
thoughtlessness of one and the serene calm of the 
other to have full outlet. There are many parents 
>vho would declare the home lawless when run on 
such a basis; perhaps many a man and woman- 
made law would be shattered by this, I hope so, at 
least, but not the actual law of individuality. That 
law, to be observed, requires parents to become 
interpreters of the special, the peculiar in the child 
in his spiritual trend, that is, the innate in the 
child; then the parent seeks by all the means to aid 
the expression of that in the child. This is the 
manner of guidance that will develop him or her 


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individually—a parent is a guide, not a tyrant. To 
rule over means to depress; repress and defeat—to 
interpret and lead is a loving constructive process 
that builds one into the expression truly of the real 
self. 

In my practice, I have more men and women to 
treat for their liberation from some limitations 
stamped upon them through the methods of home 
than for conditions created by all other causes 
together. Timidity, making it impossible to per¬ 
form before the public, even when possessed of the 
highest degree of talent and education, has re¬ 
mained because reprimand was the standards of 
home; scolding for speaking when a guest was 
present, etc. 

The standards of a home regarding the children 
are copies of the standards of the parents and their 
attitudes toward each other. One or the other 
attempts to rule or each attempts to rule over the 
other; this is true in all homes where tyranny of 
rulership over children is the practice. It is also 
the rule sometimes where there are no children. 
Wherever this is the relationship it converts the 
possible highest state into the actual lowest state. 
To dominate a life means to destroy individuality; 
that is the defeat of the very purpose of one’s exist¬ 
ence. To express an individuality is the purpose of 
human existence. 

To annihilate others means to be annihilated 
oneself—indeed, the tyrant becomes the certain 
victim of his own principles. Yet how beautiful 
it all can be when each seeks to be an interpreter of 
the others, so as to thoroughly co-operate in that 
other’s self-expression, neither desires to become 
ruler, but each aspires to lead the other into the 
glories of individuality. The child dominated by 
parent will become constituted to dominate hus- 


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band or wife and child in its turn. 

The proper psychology of the school and the 
teacher of anything is not in any principle different 
from that in the home. The teacher should be an 
interpreter, a guide, a leader. If you perceive my 
meaning you do not understand me to imply that 
there is no true sense of control; you will know that 
psychology teaches that to attain to true individ¬ 
uality involves the highest discipline. 

An inclination based upon sensation is not the 
thing I mean when I use the words self-expression 
and individuality. No greater contrasts exist than 
are found in inclination versus ideal impulse. The 
lack of self-mastery in parents will bear the fruit of 
undisciplined children. The child will have such 
violent inclinations that parents will be compelled 
to gratify them. 

Inclinations consist in sense tendencies; the 
individuality is a trend of the soul and the whole 
schooling of life for most of us is to create a unit 
between our senses and our innate individual self, 
the ideal, that our inclinations may harmonize with 
our soul’s innate impulses. 

Fill a child’s life full of activities consistent 
with its spiritual gift and trend, its sense depart¬ 
ment is then fully disciplined. 

The solution of all problems of business, society 
and government, is in this scienti^, psychological 
conception: Let every one cease to be a ruler to 
tyrannize and become an interpreter of the fellow- 
man and get in line to guide, lead and serve in 
aiding each to express his complete individuality. 


ia (Attain tlje ^Sunhrett Per Cent 



it^AZSU 


HERE is an ideal which is to the individ¬ 
ual an image of that which he could be 
and that he knows he should be. He 
occasionally has conscious views of this; 


it includes his ideal body in its development, form 
and health; his ideal intellectual power and ideal 
character. He knows that in his program of life 
in its activities, his service should be such that, 
incidental to that program, he would realize his 
ideals. 

With realization of the ideal as the destination, 
should we not deal with this journey just as we 
would with other contemplated journeys? 

Since the ideal exists, there is presumptive 
evidence that it could be realized; yet everyone 
confesses he has not arrived at completeness. It 
does not require a Marcus Aurelius to declare that 
if man does not reach his proper destination it is 
because of his principles, not because of insur¬ 
mountable obstacles; any observer must see that. 

But in taking account of the hindrances along 
this journey we do not have to note a great cata¬ 
logue of mistaken principles, for there is one that 
is primary and all others grow out of that: 

That which makes an individual’s real less than 
his ideal is his principle of substitution of the 
artificial for the natural. 

Innately, that Builder of the man, his own Soul, 
exacts truth, and when the man with his volition 
attempts to force untrue standards upon this 
executive supreme building power, the resulting 
confusion stultifies the Soul because the very law 
of its expression is harmony and truth. Let us 
examine the psychology of one’s falling short of 
the measure of a man because of the substitution 








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of the artificial for the natural. 

We will take the physical side of the principle 
first. We can begin with the infant, for even there 
we commence to take away the natural powers by 
giving a sufficiency of predigested, prepared imita¬ 
tions of natural food, and sometimes, after much 
rebellion upon the part of nature, it tolerates the 
falsity and ceases to make any natural effort to 
treat the substances, called food, introduced into 
the child’s stomach or to resist. Such a child we 
soon classify as one with “weak digestive organs,” 
always to be pampered and subject to frequent 
upsets. Unnatural food and an unnatural prepara¬ 
tion of it causing bad nutrition, the result is, the 
child is possessed of a poor quality of blood which 
calls for the introduction of mineral or other ele¬ 
ments by substitution. The nervous system show¬ 
ing the lack of tone, and sleep not being normal, 
drugs are resorted to for stimulation, and again 
for sedation, so the whole physical being is upon 
an artificial basis with nature relieved of all of its 
functions. 

No one would deny the lack of the ideal body, 
neither could one doubt that the cause is in sub¬ 
stituting the unreal instead of permitting nature 
to produce the real things needed. I will say here 
that what we have called nature, and sometimes 
the vital force, is really an intelligence—the su¬ 
preme but suggestible sub-consciousness or Soul. 
It quickly accepts the suggestion of repression and 
says to the will of the conscious mind: Substitute 
an artificial and I will cease altogether to produce 
the natural.” 

Instead of the infant, let us consider an adult, 
still from the physical side, and also begin with 
digestion. Through wrong practices of some sort, 
food, is not digested, and the physician says there 


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is not enough pepsin, so he gives him pepsin made 
in the pig’s stomach. The sub-conscious mind at 
once interprets that the volition has chosen an 
exterior source for the pepsin and quits secreting. 
Again upon test it is declared that all of the gastric 
secretions are deficient or abnormal, so the whole 
product taken from a dog’s stomach is given to the 
man, and then all the glands of the stomach cease 
to secrete. 

Surely this much of the individual any one will 
grant is short of the ideal, and the cause lies in the 
substitution that repressed the soul in its exercise 
of that part of the body. Practically every func¬ 
tion of the body has been dealt with upon the same 
principle. Glasses are worn to take the place of 
perfect eyes. Hair coloring is substituted for 
nature’s colors, and the wig to take the place of 
hair, the woman congratulating herself that when 
she reaches a certain age she can paint a little 
heavier and use peroxide as a substitute for 
nature’s tints and colors. She pads, or she pinches, 
or wears supports, and yet every time and in every 
way she substitutes, nature seems to become more 
impotent, and finally gives up effort. 

Practically all the vices or bad habits of people 
come from the source of which we are speaking. 
It is an effort to substitute a false stimulant for a 
natural one to use tobacco or liquor. In some of 
these instances, as well as in drug habits, the cause 
was in some previous form of substitution that had 
set up a wrong craving, on the principle that one 
false stimulant calls for another with an ever- 
increasing insatiable appetite and deplorable de¬ 
generacy. These things are like falsehoods, which, 
when one is told, there is need of a score of others 
to explain that one, where silence or truth would 
have proved saving. 


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However, tlie human disaster where there is 
the practice of substitution does not end with a 
diseased, deformed and deficient body. The fact 
is, it is not a power of the body, a chemical organ¬ 
ization, to elect or select or perceive anything. 
This substitution has been an act of the will or 
mind upon the body, therefore, mind may fix its 
mental or intellectual standards to be expressed 
through the mind as well as upon the body. Obser¬ 
vation discloses that pretending, false standards as 
to intellectual power or mental perception obtain 
where there are these substitutions in the body. It 
becomes impossible to discern the truth, and yet, 
like the intoxicated man who thinks every one else 
is drunk while he is perfectly upright, the substi- 
tutionist feels his fidelity in his falsity. 

But the far-reaching effect of substitution of 
the false for the true, though it first begins its 
action in the body, does not end with physical and 
mental effects, but includes the spiritual being. 
Nothing could be more impossible than for one to 
play all of these false parts upon the body and 
have false standards intellectually and yet have 
truth, or ideal character. 

Look at this situation and see if you do not 
recognize much of mankind. Here is one who 
substitutes artificial foods for the real—predigested 
instead of digesting them for himself; substituting 
all gastric secretions—not creating them, hence 
false to him; substituting iron (from nail rust) in 
his blood instead of producing it through his own 
organism from natural food; substituting medicine 
or stimulants for health; substituting memorized 
Contents of books for thought-out conclusions, sub¬ 
stituting learning for education, and even pretend¬ 
ing as to the extent of his book knowledge; you say 
that is enough, that you recognize your neighbor. 


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It is not enough until you see that with such imag¬ 
ery and such physical degeneracy that one would, 
as surely as effect follows cause, put all blame for 
everything that occurs in his life upon some one or 
something else outside of himself—to be consistent 
he must do that, for he is compelled to put the 
false in place of the real. 

One thing more to which I must call your atten¬ 
tion is that if in every other phase substitution is 
his principle, so must it be of his religion. He 
would accept sacrifice of the innocent for his guilt, 
he would have a scapegoat, he would enter heaven 
through vicarious atonement and never through 
natural attainment of his ideal through growth. 

I have gone over this course, whose destination 
is a man far short of his glory; an inglorious fail¬ 
ure as compared with his promise, his prophecy or 
his possibility. Forgive him we must, condemn him 
we cannot. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times 
out of a thousand he is not wanted—his arrival is 
an accident which had its source in the parents 
endeavoring, though failing, to substitute a false 
and momentary pleasure for an everlasting one. 
With heredity that gave him false impulse, and his 
first training being to employ everything to defeat 
and repress nature, he is justified in being the 
result he is until knowledge is revealed to him. 

Let us, then, go over the ground again and see 
if we cannot become very optimistic upon this sub¬ 
ject. An infant should not be given anything in a 
form to repress or relieve nature from proper activ¬ 
ity. Food adapted to the child and given to it by 
parent or nurse with the assurance that nature will 
be stimulated to treat the food successfully, will 
produce the desired result. The expectancy of 
parent or nurse is the law over an infant; it is per¬ 
fectly led or overwhelmed by their mental attitudes. 


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An adult should never receive pepsin or other 
gastric secretion in substitution for his own. He 
should receive a well-mixed dietary with sugges¬ 
tions that he will create in his own stomach all the 
chemicals essential to his digestion. 

If you ask for a reasonable basis of the above, 
as well as for my assurance that clinical practice 
demonstrates it to be all-sufficient, then I will tell 
you that medical pepsin is obtained by letting the 
pigs become hungry, and then making them think 
that they are going to be fed. They are killed, and 
their stomachs, when immediately opened, yield a 
great supply of pepsin secreted because of expec¬ 
tancy. All the gastric juices are to be obtained 
from the dog that has been looking at the meat 
which he does not receive. All of my patients with 
indigestion have shown to possess minds equal to 
the animals mentioned, and through this observa¬ 
tion I have been led to have hope for the race. 

There are many people who should put on 
glasses, not to take the place of good natural sight 
or strength, but to wear for a while to train the 
eyes out of a necessity for the glasses. With the 
idea of aiding nature out of a condition it would 
be very rarely necessary to put them on to wear 
the rest of the life, as is a common custom. Sus¬ 
pensories might occasionally have a temporary use 
upon the principle of training back to strength. 
Medicines may serve some place, sometimes, to aid 
nature, but not to take the place of something 
nature should do. 

The woman who fixes her standard at paint, 
peroxide, padding and penciling, practices a sub¬ 
stitution that entirely represses nature, whereas a 
mental attitude that is commanding and expectant 
will enable nature to supply nutrition and normal 
color to her cheeks and hair, and a happy mental 


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state will take away the deepest wrinkles care ever 
created. 

Now for the psychology of the whole subject. 
It is as though every man had millions of eyes 
watching him and every eye belonged to an individ¬ 
ual who attended to a part of the man’s affairs, and 
the sum total of these watchful individuals exe¬ 
cuted everything of every nature in the life of the 
man; that they watched and discerned what the 
man voluntarily did toward his fellow man and 
what he thought of himself—that is, they saw all of 
the imagery of his mind, and what they saw was his 
predominating thought, which they interpreted as 
his principles, that became the law of action in 
their execution. Now these intelligent individuals 
with their all-seeing eyes are the servants or agents 
of expression of the man, the cells that physically 
comprise his body yet serve in doing all of the 
functions of the body. 

Let the man choose an artificial substitution, 
his cells serve him consistently, withdrawing a real 
function; let the man will to be noble, generous 
and loyal and the cells will be full of life and 
energy and serve faithfully, with a result of ulti¬ 
mate good health and mental efficiency. 

In other words, our arrival at that destination 
spoken of in the opening paragraph is dependent 
upon our standards, whether they are expression 
or repression, destructive or constructive; these 
standards are our Auto-Suggestions, they are our 
principles. I am quite certain with the view before 
us, that our substitution of the artificial for the 
natural is a principle that has hindered the attain¬ 
ment of the full measure of a man, we will radically 
cut off from the untrue and embrace and hold fast 
to that which is the real. 


^oul tEii>es 


HE SOUL has its tides, its ebb and its 
flow, in which there are distinguishing 
laws of the Silence from which those 
who desire to obtain all the aids I can 
give them in applied psychology will find much 
pleasure and profit, 

I have approached the ocean’s side when its 
waves were beating high and I was at first uncer¬ 
tain which was taking place; the tide coming in or 
going out. I soon realized that as breaker suc¬ 
ceeded breaker it was less violent and that the 
beach waves did not reach the marks of high water. 
From that moment my interest was attentively 
drawn to the surging process. Many are so accus¬ 
tomed to turbulence and violence that they think 
life must be going out when it is only peace coming 
on. All of our sympathies are held while we watch 
the change from intensest activity to the deepest 
passivity; ultimately we are impressed that a final 
thrill, a mere quiver has passed over the sea, when 
Ocean speaks in no uncertain language. One com¬ 
muning with her hears this prayer: “Oh! let this 
be the end, how sweet is this calm, this rest after 
labor, to be a recipient after being so intense a 
giver; I have been the burden-bearer; I have been 
the driving-power; I have been the benefactor; let 
me now be borne; let me be blessed in receiving; 
let me abide in this repose, care free, with all satia¬ 
tion.” 

Just as the ocean seems to subside with a quiver 
we observe a stir and thrill. Although they cause 
no upheaval we know they went to her depths and 
put life in every murial atom. Motion is followed 
by motion and the sweep of expansion in each suc¬ 
ceeding breath is greater and with impulse laden 









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with impulse, force added to force, it becomes evi¬ 
dent that as the ebb of the lowest tide was her 
former destination, the other extreme, the flow of 
the highest tide, is to be attained. Waves, as high 
as mountains that burst with a deafening peal and 
roll with the noise of the thunder, roar, thrash and 
surge and leap and finally unfold, touching the 
mark on the beach higher than old ocean has ever 
been known to rise. There is a majesty in the great 
sea, whether at calm or when the billows tower 
high, that nature does not suggest in anything else. 
To call it the most gigantic power conveys little 
meaning—you have to view it as a creator of energy 
capable of vitalizing the whole world. 

I think that comparatively few things are com¬ 
prehended of those mighty depths; many of God’s 
waiting secrets are there inviting solicitous inquiry. 
I know but one parallel to all of the significance, 
attibutes and qualities of the ocean and that is the 
human soul. Of course, the ocean as compared 
with the universe is a mere atom; it is sufficient to 
be a miniature of the universe but it possesses all 
of the attributes and all of the powers for its indi- 
dividual purposes that are possessed by that of 
which it is the type. 

However, this we do know, the ocean is not 
unique in its tides for human soul follows its copy. 
Soul tides mean as much as could the ebb and flow 
of the sea. Probably if ocean did not work in 
unison with the celestial bodies there would be no 
seasons and if there were no seasons, the earth 
would yield no fruitage. If individual soul does 
not sympathetically vibrate with that in which it 
abides, the harmonies all turn to discord and there 
is no music; where there is no music there is no 
love and where there is no love there is nothing to 
bind the elements together. 


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I am ever endeavoring to impress each man with 
his kingly place, with his vital importance to the 
Whole; that he is needed by each and by all and 
that as each needs him, he needs each and all. To 
be his part, though, each man has to have certain 
mental attitudes to permit the spiritual fulfillments 
to attain their possibilities so that he can give and 
receive to the utmost. Psychology abounds in this 
instruction. 

The first indication of the ebb of the soul is in 
the inclination to seek no more of the actual con¬ 
tacts with people than are essential. One cares 
little for conversation of an objective sort. Wheth¬ 
er in the midst of things or not, one feels retired 
from the world in a measure, and prefers that the 
world of things will not hold him. 

Now one finds himself in the sweetest attitude 
toward all the world and even the people, but a 
longing for retirement from the pressure of things, 
even of thought. I see, in this, the receding waters 
of the ocean that were tumultuous. And as one 
yields more and more of the objective self he ulti¬ 
mately touches the inactivity of the ocean in its 
lowest ebb. 

The soul is now saying, for all of the individual: 
“Oh, this sweet release—I love to look back to the 
world of action as a recollection, but let me abide 
in this rest forever, there are sweet companionships 
here, without misunderstandings the objective cre¬ 
ates and I have a sense of being cared for whereas I 
must endure such cares in the other state; I blend 
with the great center of harmonies—I have the 
same temperature, the same pulse with the Uni¬ 
verse of Love; Music is mine—I am one with God; 
why cannot I remain forever in this freedom, in 
this kingdom of peace? I feel that I am drinking 
in great draughts of pure strength, and my per- 


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ceptions are opening as if I were on the verge of 
obtaining all knowledge. I see people’s lives but I 
also see their souls, their possibilities and their 
struggles. Ah, I see, too, their obstacles; I see 
they would be better if they knew how to be. I 
wonder if I am not the one to tell some of them 
how? Yes, there I see one who is almost into the 
Kingdom of Heaven, he almost perceives a truth, 
that he has within him the attributes of God. 

At first I thought I had all strength and all joy, 
but now I see how I can grow, there seem to be no 
bounds, really, while at first glimpse of my expand¬ 
ed world when I let go of the objective, I thought I 
had attained the ultimate of individual power and 
knowledge. I conceived of boundaries then, I see 
there are no limitations now; feed me, O companion 
souls, supply me, O God, prepare me with no man’s 
strength, who has ideas of the worm of the dust, 
but give me man’s strength who knows his God. I 
will go back to all of my work and I shall keep in 
me all of the love, all of the peace and all of the 
confidence that I have felt here and I shall breathe 
this same spirit into my servant—mind, and instru¬ 
ment—body. 

Thus we see what occurs at the low tide that 
quickly turns one toward the high tide. It was a 
period of passive preparation for the greatest ex¬ 
ecutive demonstration—a retirement from all ex¬ 
cept soul that prepared for the soul and body and 
mind, service to fellowman and self. 

What really took place during this soul ebb? 
First, consider what took place when majestic ocean 
seemed to go to sleep. When the objective, upper- 
self with all of the tumult, the turbulence and vio¬ 
lence, retired, with what did her surface waters 
with upper currents come in contact? With the 
undercurrent, that storehouse of power, a force so 


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great that it is thought that all the marvels of the 
surface only hint at it, and in those moments of 
lowest ebb, a mighty power and impulse from those 
depths thrilled and vibrated until ocean must act 
toward high tide again. 

This is as it is with the soul when it sees it must 
be back into active life and demonstration, in order 
to fill the boundless possibilities through service. 
That is one driving force that compels the soul to 
go and take its place with its fellows again. This 
is also true that the attraction or other action of 
the heavenly bodies forces the mighty sea on its 
tides—it must answer to this heavenly impulse. 
When one gets out of the field of action and is in 
his ebb of peace he has a new viewpoint and be¬ 
comes more conscious of just what his fellow man 
needs—he forgives and forgets the disagreeable 
objective in the man and sees his needs and possi¬ 
bilities through knowledge; has compassion on him 
and hurries to his rescue and his building. So the 
demands for self-expression, like the impulse of the 
undercurrent of the ocean, send him back to work; 
and the needs of his fellow man, like the attraction 
of heavenly bodies acting upon the sea, send or 
attract him into the best executive work. 

Now we find our individual back at high tide, 
enthusiastic, persistent, determined, confident, firm, 
but possessed of the same sweet, loving spirit in all 
of his being that was promised while in that retreat 
—his conjunction with the center of Harmonies. 

The adorable tides of the soul! Pray that they 
may come, enter them with pure health in all the 
strength of manhood or womanhood; go there for 
your music, for your painting, for your sculpture, 
for your mathematics, your literature or your act¬ 
ing, for nil of the best preparation for usefulness 
and unfoldment. 


dfilbfyoob Statons 


HEN I was a very small boy I remember 
that I sometimes drew my black hat so 
tightly over my face that all light would 
be excluded. Upon such occasions I 
saw colors and pictures more beautiful than any 
child mind or adult could ever imagine. They came 
spontaneously and seemed to be collected in my 
little old hat. I knew at the time, since there were 
so many hatfuls of them that they were really not 
there at all. I did not seem surprised to find them, 
not even if there were streams of water murmur¬ 
ing, birds flitting and singing, bees humming, 
crickets chirping and frogs muttering, all in my 
hat. I asked no questions, I loved and was happy, 
although I knew not what I loved nor what I saw 
nor sources from which came either my joy or sight 
or sound. 

Is it not too bad that childhood must be intro¬ 
duced to pain? I wonder if it ever would know 
pain were it not that its elders introduce to it, Sin ! 
I wonder if it does not have to have sin suggested 
to it before it knows or does sin, just the same as 
it is introduced to the rest of objective things before 
it expresses them? You know the child is born with 
organs of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and feel¬ 
ing, yet none of these function as objective organs 
until the child receives from some source a sugges¬ 
tion definitely to exercise each sense. It is very 
highly probable that the sweet, pure, innocent, lov¬ 
ing child, going happily about with its normal 
thoughts, would never think evil only for the fact 
that some one suggests to it that its thoughts are 
evil. 

The beginning of evil thoughts and acts is not 
from anything innate in the child, but from sugges- 






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tions from the outside. No one ever did a greater 
wrong than to suggest an evil where one did not 
exist. What must be the status in the chain of 
truth and justice of the accredited teachers who 
instruct mankind to believe that the “Sin of Adam” 
is in the child which warrants every one in becom¬ 
ing the child’s accuser! 

I am qualified to speak correctly when I say that 
because there is no objective unfoldment, not even 
of a sense except as it is first suggested to the child 
by an elder, it is a reasonable inference that it 
thinks no sin until it receives a suggestion that it 
commits evil. I know that I lived entirely in the 
beautiful, innocent and holy until one older than 
I said that my thoughts were bad. The saying 
began almost as far back as I can remember—back 
to the time when I was in the heavenly joy of 
psychic pictures. I am glad, to this day, that I 
had no younger brother, nor sister; so much more 
fortunate is it to be the victim of evil interpreters 
than to be such an interpreter. 

The moment one accepts the suggestion that his 
thoughts are bad, though they are not, lie will then 
proceed to live up to the suggestion. I am helping 
parents to account for all forms of bad dispositions. 
Suggestions descriptive of bad imagery precede all 
facts, acts and forms. 

Impugned motives is one of the most destruc¬ 
tive forces acting upon character today. 

Evil interpreters, whether they act on child vic¬ 
tims or more elderly, hold within themselves the 
essentials to their own perpetual miseries. They 
seldom reform but are self-destructive. 

Approval of the good and beautiful in a child 
does not produce a vanity nor other objectionable 
self-consciousness. It is when he is found so full 


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of faults and constantly irritated that he becomes 
unfortunately self-conscious. 

I loved to be alone to love the beautiful that 
came to me—in this I was so happy. Then I was 
criticised, irritated and punished for another’s 
doings. I lost all I had ever seen in my hat and in 
the dark. 

Not until a few years ago, when I was formally 
treating a man to develop him as a sensitive, did 
my pictures begin to come back. By my experience 
I am now made to know that even if in your earlier 
years you were defrauded of your birthright or 
exchanged it for “a mess of pottage,” you can, 
through the New Psychology, reclaim your birth¬ 
right. Psychic colors and pictures are creations of 
the soul intended to impress the consciousness with 
some information for guidance, comfort or proph¬ 
ecy. To be psychic is the greatest misfortune if 
one does not understand the subject, but it is among 
the highest spiritual gifts when directed and under¬ 
stood. It is the same as any other art—all art is 
psychic or of the soul, therefore, subject to cultiva¬ 
tion through aspiration and the proper formulas 
for exercise. 

The time is coming when the child will be taught 
that his soul creates beautiful things that are to 
become patterns for his life and activities to ful¬ 
fill. This teaching will supplant fairyland and all 
other fantasy. In the adult after thoughts have 
become impure, psychic pictures springing up be¬ 
fore the consciousness constitute a phenomenon 
which may be interpreted as evidence of mental 
disease; they may be the occasion, through such 
interpretation, of the individual becoming insane. 
Thousands of people are kept in confinement as 
insane because such suggestions were given them. 


^Returning to ttje $lalleg of tlje ^3lbeal 


HERE was a man, who like the rest of 
mankind was born in the Valley of the 
Ideal whose chief ambition was to obtain 
riches. He threw aside his high stand¬ 
ards in many respects—always taking the thought 
that he could come back and take those up later; 
reassuring himself that the end justified the means 
for he could, with the control of money, carry out 
many ideas which were only conceptions and could 
become nothing more unless he could make the 
financial expenditures. Of course the man who sets 
aside his ideals yet lives within the man-made laws 
may accomplish much more and remain unmolested 
than does the individual who commits fraud out¬ 
right or robs as a burglar or highwayman but I 
leave with you the suggestion that since every 
departure from the ideal is itself a cause whose 
effects are in no way dependent upon the standards 
of community agreements, as to their rule of action, 
the actual effects upon the individual may be the 
same in either instance. The disaster is complete 
when one ceases to maintain his own inner stand¬ 
ard. This man was a most scientific investor— 
commercial affairs seemed to be directed by his 
best inspiration and he experienced long years of 
uninterrupted prosperity. 

Finally he seemed to think he had all the wealth 
to which he cared to give thought, so he would select 
the choice place of earth in which to live according 
to the ideals he had when those visions came to him 
many years in the past. He undertook to take up 
residence in the Valley of the Ideal. He quickly 
discovered that the practices of years had fixed 
upon him spontaneous inclinations, involuntary 
attitudes of mind and actions consistent with those; 







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he realized that the habits of life were far stronger 
than his love for the true and the good and the 
^beautiful. He endeavored to force many things 
into the Valley of the Ideal that he knew did not 
belong there; this was not a place where he could 
use force successfully. He became aware that he 
must renounce practically everything he had be¬ 
come; that he could not in any manner fit his 
acquired actual into the ideal. 

However, he came back to the point where he 
saw the beautiful Valley of the Ideal from which 
his artificial standards and practices excluded him. 
Since he had not the courage to leave outside of the 
entrance to that Valley those things which could 
not be admitted, he often felt that he would better 
never have reviewed the world of his nativity. He 
gave himself over to the most rapid methods of self- 
destruction. 

I could cite to you those instances where fame 
or power over fellow man was to be the first goal of 
the individual. Each one of these persons likewise 
suspended, temporarily, as he supposed, the stand¬ 
ards of the Ideal until he could possess the actual 
in the form he wished. That later they endeavored 
to force their actual to fit the ideal, and met with as 
consummate failure as the man who had gained 
wealth outside of ideal methods—you know that 
they, too, failed completely in their effort to return 
to the Ideal. 

It would be a bungling, untrue idealist who 
would here condemn wealth, fame and power. 
Every normal individual inherently desires his 
quota of all of these. I am sure that when one 
possesses the proper interpretation of life, all of 
these things can be obtained and that even learning 
can be gained and education attained, all consistent 
{With, yes, guided by the innate department of the 


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perfect within and the Ideal be best conserved 
through the exercises essential to these attainments. 
In the above I show the short and dissatisfied life 
and unsatisfactory end of those who resorted to 
methods which denied the Ideal in all that they 
acquired. 

At this time we are seeking not to return par¬ 
tially to the Valley of the Ideal but to return and 
be fully naturalized citizens with all the privileges 
of our nativity. 

Since for man all things must begin in the 
image, the return to the Valley must begin with 
one harboring thoughts of that Valley of the Ideal 
and only thoughts consistent with the Ideal; he 
must look for the pattern for his individual self 
within himself and not desire to follow copy of any 
other individual that ever lived. Apply any one’s 
good principles but never attempt to express 
another person. 

The details of life become inspired; the long¬ 
ings and yearnings are satisfied. The King of the 
Valley is honored and that sense of home security 
is realized. All of the outer life becomes a con¬ 
sistent expression of the deity within and a proper 
self-sufficiency is the natural unfoldment and yet 
with the most benign attitudes, all love, tolerance 
and proper trust in contacts and interchanges with 
others. 

All that for which you would strive is yours for 
the taking. Your art expression which is your self 
expression partakes of the qualities of the perfect. 

When one has known the glory, the peace, the 
sublimity, the grace, the majesty of man—the 
boundless and limitless Man—he has known the 
Valley of the Ideal. The Valley of the Ideal 
“coineth not by observation,” it is within you. 


®Ije perfect postern of pealing 

F the intelligence within the body can 
direct its instrument—can demonstrate 
through it, it does not seem any more 
wonderful that the same mind can con- 

It is well known to the writer that when one 
has a positive conclusion concerning the body, that 
conclusion or its parallel will take form in the 
body; that a conclusion of the mind is equal to a 
forceful command given to a power which can com¬ 
pel the changes consistent with the conclusion. 
Even that is not the whole extent of a mental atti¬ 
tude. It is clearly proved that one need not think 
literal things concerning the body in order to 
change that organization: Every cell of the body 
(all that enters into the body to constitute tissue is 
made of cells) takes on conditions chemically, mag¬ 
netically, in temperature and in function in per¬ 
fect accord with the attitudes of mind toward 
people and things. The pessimist, the hater or he 
who becomes jealous, the grouchy or the mean 
person, or one who has any form of destructive 
thought, just as certainly provides for inharmonies 
in the body as if he thought of the body under the 
most impressive unfavorable diagnosis. All such 
states of mind create bad chemistry, toxins (poi¬ 
sons) in the body; lower resistance of the body and 
invite all forms of disease. 

The optimist, he who is hopeful, happy, and kind 
in his attitudes toward the world and the people, 
provides in the largest degree for permanent health 
or if ill he is doing the utmost that he can to facili¬ 
tate the establishment of health. You would, in 
interviewing any jphysician upon the above, dis¬ 
close his full approval of every statement made. 







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His practice lias convinced him of the all power of 
mind in these matters. He declares to his patient: 
“I can do nothing with my medicines while you 
continue to hate, grieve or worry.” He sometimes 
adds: “If you correct your emotions you will not 
need my medicines for you will get well.” 

You very reasonably ask: “Since the physician 
concurs in the all potency of the mind of the patient 
to make ill or to cure, why does he practice a drug 
system?” The correct answer is, he has not been 
taught concerning the laws of mind; how to direct 
that omnipotence. He has not even dared to think 
for himself upon that subject. He could analyze 
any case, with which he comes in contact, from the 
psychological standpoint and thereby disclose the 
causative power of thought and emotions from 
which he would deduce the curative power and the 
laws and formulas for directing its application in 
healing. 

I began the expose of mind power, in its office in 
healing, at the power of a conclusion because some¬ 
thing of this is known to every one. Every one has 
formed a conclusion that certain things of a disease 
sort were developing and then proceeded to create 
the conditions. Sometimes he was informed very 
impressively that his conclusion was wrong, there¬ 
fore he put an end to the developments. Many an 
individual has formed a conclusion that the medi¬ 
cine taken was sure to cure—then he proceeded to 
recover. I could give hundred of demonstrations 
in this direction; I desist because all have observed 
the power of a conclusion—they sometimes call it 
the potency of imagination. I do not care for the 
word, imagination, in this connection, for it limits 
the effect to the stage in which the subject is still 
in image whereas I know a conclusion of the mind 
may modify the condition after the image has taken 


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form. A different image involved in a new con¬ 
clusion supplies a new plan which the intelligence 
within uses and rearranges cell relationships, cell 
functions and cell states organically,—building a 
new form corresponding with the delineations of 
the conclusion. 

Why is a conclusion so overwhelming? 

Because the conclusions of the reasoning mind, 
the intellect, the department of mind with which 
one wills, with which one chooses, cause expectancy 
in that deeper stratum of mind where the emotions 
are. When that department of the subjective self 
is caused to believe or expect a thing it proceeds 
at once to order its agents of execution, the cells, 
to perform in that essential way to produce condi¬ 
tions (a form) corresponding with the design 
represented in the conclusion. 

Thus you see, your conscious, objective mind is 
a designer and your soul is the builder. Individual 
liberty is evident because the soul builds that which 
one wills or chooses. Choosing ignorantly, under 
erroneous standards or under influence of fear one 
practically commands the soul to build disease. 
This choosing or forming conclusions—is the objec¬ 
tive self suggesting to the subjective self. 

If one renews his conclusions or repeatedly 
practices an act or thought he thereby forms a 
habit. A habit is the automatic, spontaneous or 
involuntary performance of the soul. Habits orig¬ 
inally are deliberately chosen practices or are per¬ 
mitted by the conscious department of mind. 

Since these habits are impressions upon the soul 
or subconscious department, which were placed 
there through auto-suggestion, auto-suggestion 
must hold the remedy. For this reason we give 
formulas for directly and intentionally suggesting 


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the correction to the soul. Disease of chronic sort 
is primarily habit. 

Such a discovery could never be possible to 
those who worked purely from the physical stand¬ 
ard; it could be no more possible to those who 
recognize only mind or spirit. Just the correct 
balance between mind and matter has never been 
exhibited until the writer without bias to either 
matter or spirit formulated the relationship be¬ 
tween the two. Some students of mind and matter 
began with such leanings toward matter that they 
gave the body as a chemical result, precedence over 
the intelligence which they granted is present dur¬ 
ing life of the body. There are people even in this 
day who think that there is a virtue in the complex 
human physical organization to produce the mani¬ 
festation of mind; that thought is the result of the 
body. Thus they give precedence to the physical. 
Very naturally a chemical or drug system of repair 
would grow out of such an attitude. With two 
elements involved it would seem that they must 
either complement each other or one or the other 
be in absolute ascendency. 

Your author can find no purpose in matter—no 
interests of its own to be advanced by mind, where¬ 
as with even casual observation any one can see 
there are purposes and interests of mind which can 
only be subserved when mind is possessed of an 
instrument. A very excellent knife can have no 
purposes of its own, while most perilous situations 
of mind can only be met through the intelligent 
surgeon’s possession of the keen edged instrument. 

It is utterly impossible for me or any other 
practical thinking person to conceive of the body 
being more or less than the plastic instrument of 
the intelligence present in the body. 

To preserve the body in health and to repair it, 


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is to nearly all mankind to this day tlie problem 
fartherest from solution. 

Progress in all phases of material science is 
apparent and advancement would have been 
marked in healing too if it were demonstrable that 
it should be classified among physical sciences. 
There has never been in history a time when the 
chemistry of drugs was so well known. However, 
it matters not how pure the drug; how well it is 
separated, its active principle from the inert; how 
well classified, nor how, by its very nature, it should 
be a specific for the disease which has been named 
by its symptoms, still it fails of the desired end— 
scientific healing. 

Probably there never has been a period when so 
many people were declaring “All is spirit; there is 
no matter” as there are at this time. If there is no 
body there could be nothing through which to 
manifest inharmony, therefore there should be an 
absence of disease. As in the application of the 
drug formula there are in many instances dis¬ 
appearance of disease, so in instances where the 
denial of matter and affirmation of “all spirit” is 
the formula, healing follows. Neither of these can 
be scientific for either method when applied is 
followed by more failures than successes. 

Just that proper balance between mind and 
matter is the new conception and is to all to whom 
it shall come, who shall accept it, the most vital 
discovery. 

Scientific healing; scientific mental and charac¬ 
ter culture are actually for the first time disclosed 
—your author is truly the founder of the “Perfect 
System of Healing and Culture.” 



(Elje |J aim ®I{at 

AY after day, month after month and 
session after session of medical study 
and listening to lectures I watched the 
manifestations, anatomical, physiologi¬ 
cal, botanical, of disease and healing but from no 
source, while in this study did there ever come any 
explanation of the power that produced the mar¬ 
vels. The surgeon would explain that we could 
clean up a wound and bring the parts together, then 
there would occur the multiplication of cells with 
many series and varieties until presently union 
would take place; he never taught by what power 
these things occurred. 

The only manner in which any ever approached 
the subject of the power was in ridiculing the stage 
in medical history when they taught that spirits 
directed and controlled all the phenomena of dis¬ 
ease and to be healed required the placation of the 
controlling spirits. You may imagine one’s dis¬ 
appointment at never receiving any interpretation 
of the power that produces so large and varied a 
class of phenomena as that which is comprehended 
in the elaborate study of medicine. Theologically 
speaking, they formerly taught that all things are 
done either by God or the Devil; if this were true 
then one should disclose the rules of action govern¬ 
ing those competitive powers so as to obtain the 
thing needed at their hands. 

Whenever a different mode, (so-called new 
mode) of healing is championed it would seem, 
from the claims, that no one was ever ill who had 
become well again previous to the launching of the 
“new mode.” Our teaching upon this subject is 
unique: We declare that there probably was never 
a charm, nor drug, nor man nor theology, nor any 
other object that claimed to be a power to heal that 
has not healing to its credit. Man has always been 







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getting sick and getting well again and he has 
always used some mode of healing; his methods 
have varied from time to time for in one period 
there will be some prevailing method, at another 
time the leading practice is quite different. 

I have not spoken to any one upon the subject 
that has not told me of something alleged to have 
healed persons which I had not been informed upon 
and I never feel disposed to doubt their truthful¬ 
ness for I know that anything may be used and 
coincident with its use the individual will become 
healed and many times he would not be healed had 
not the thing been used. 

I am confident that had Moses not have erected 
the brazen serpent on the pole and caused his peo¬ 
ple to look toward it for healing that many more 
would have died from the bites of the serpents. I 
am credulous when the claim is made; that a king 
applied his great toe over the seat of the disease in 
disorders of the spleen with healing as the result. 
I believe Mesmer’s efforts were followed by thou¬ 
sands of cures—I know they ought to have cured 
thousands that had been pronounced incurable at 
the hands of other medical men. I know that Braid 
with his hypnotic method should have cured many. 

I know fully as well that the bones of the saints and 
the laying on of hands and the ashes or dust of the 
bones of the saints and the holy oils and the springs 
have thousands of genuine cures to their credit. 

The various schools of medicine, although ex¬ 
treme opposites in their methods, are all successful 
in that they give their treatment and cure often 
follows; and one school is just as successful as the 
other when one has an equal opportunity with the 
other. I wish to bear witness positively that thou¬ 
sands of cures have taken place in recent years 
when a theological formula was used in the treat¬ 
ment. 


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I wonder if there is anyone of the present day 
who would say there was any efficacy in the brazen 
serpent, in Mesmer’s magnetism, in Braid’s hypno¬ 
tism, in the bones, dust or ashes of saints or the 
oils, or the hands laid on, in the thousands of forms 
of charms, or the varied prescriptions or the theo¬ 
logical formulas—that any of these things are 
themselves, the Power that heals? They will all 
have to go into the same class in their relationship 
to healing for they all have cures which have 
attended upon their administration. In the light 
of the present day knowledge of the Power that 
heals, they are, in the actual sense, related to heal¬ 
ing as by coincidence the application of the accept¬ 
ed method is made and at the same time the patient 
recovers. 

The conclusion of the psychologist or any one 
else who examines the history of healing is this: 
The Power that heals is within the individual who 
needs to he healed; the practical psychologist has 
disclosed that this power is a form of intelligence, 
is not the outer form of consciousness but is sub¬ 
conscious preferably called the soul. All manner 
of things have been taken at a suggestion value and 
have caused the soul to heal because suggestion is 
the key to the soul’s action; any suggestion, charm, 
drug or theology that can be received as a sugges¬ 
tion sufficient to create expectancy in the soul can 
provide for the mental attitude involved in healing. 

None of the methods, above described, are at¬ 
tended by healing in one-half of the instances, so 
are far from being scientific. 

Only that method which provides for access to 
the soul to convey suggestion and create expectancy 
can ever become scientific. 

Suggestions given to one who is in a passive state 
create soul expectancy. The Power that built the 
body, the soul, must heal it. 


Contents 


domestic Psychology 5 

^osiness Psychology - - - - 11 

JMafting a Pision - - - - - 17 

foetal Psychology - - - - 23 

< 3 Ibeal pcononty - - - - - 27 

Clfc playsifce anh Cl]* Oioal - - - 33 

procrastination - - - - - 38 

Quiet - 43 

Hloyousness 48 

Cljuught pffects - - - - - 52 

jMentory ------ 59 

pfontan—jlang Pour ®£mt j£»ong - - - 64 

< 31 nhifri&uality 69 

Po6i to (Attairt tlje J^unhreh Per Cent - 74 

Jionl Cifces - - - - - 81 

Cljtlhijoofr Pistons - . - - - 86 

^Returning to ilje Palley of tl]e ^boal Q9 

Clje Perfect System of Pealing - - - 92 

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